Goncharov Quotes
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“When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep you bury the tedious question of what you lived for that day and what you're going to live for tomorrow.”
― Oblomov
― Oblomov
![Ivan Goncharov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1334441735i/5326370._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.
p. 479”
― Oblomov
p. 479”
― Oblomov
![Ivan Goncharov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1334441735i/5326370._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“When all the forces in your organism come into play, then life will begin to play around you as well. You'll see what your eyes are closed to now, and you'll hear what you've never heard. The music of your nerves will begin to play, you'll hear the music of the spheres, and you'll listen to the grass grow. Just wait, there's no hurry. It will come in its own time!
p. 257”
― Oblomov
p. 257”
― Oblomov
![Ivan Goncharov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1334441735i/5326370._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“Yes, and I think I will have enough strength to live and love my whole life through. One without the other is impossible.
p. 265”
― Oblomov
p. 265”
― Oblomov
![Ivan Goncharov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1334441735i/5326370._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“Ah! This is retribution for Promethean fire! Besides being patient, you must also love this sadness and respect your doubts and questions. They are an abundant excess, a luxury of life, and they appear more at the summits of happiness, when you have no crude desires. They are not born in the midst of mundanity. They have no place where there is grief and want. The masses go along without knowing the fog of doubts or the anguish of questions. But for anyone who has encountered them at the right time they are dear visitors, not a hammer.'
'But there's no coping with them. They bring anguish and indifference to nearly everything.' she added indecisively.
'But for how long? Afterward they refresh life,' he said. 'They lead to an abyss from which nothing can be gained, and they force you to look again at life, with even greater love. They summon up your tested powers to struggle with it, as if expressly to let them sleep afterward.'
'This fog and these specters torment me!' she complained. 'Everything is bright and all of a sudden a sinister shadow is cast over life! Are there no means against this?'
'What do you mean? Your buttress is in life! Without it, life is sickening, even without any questions!'
p. 508”
― Oblomov
'But there's no coping with them. They bring anguish and indifference to nearly everything.' she added indecisively.
'But for how long? Afterward they refresh life,' he said. 'They lead to an abyss from which nothing can be gained, and they force you to look again at life, with even greater love. They summon up your tested powers to struggle with it, as if expressly to let them sleep afterward.'
'This fog and these specters torment me!' she complained. 'Everything is bright and all of a sudden a sinister shadow is cast over life! Are there no means against this?'
'What do you mean? Your buttress is in life! Without it, life is sickening, even without any questions!'
p. 508”
― Oblomov
![Ivan Goncharov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1334441735i/5326370._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“She attended the French performance, but the play's content now had a connection to her life. She read a book and the book invariably had lines with sparks from her mind, the fire of her emotions flickered here and there, and words spoken the night before were written down, as if the author had overheard how her heart beat.
The forest held the same trees, but their sound had taken on special meaning; she had established a vibrant consonance with them. The birds did not simply twitter and chirp but were saying something to each other. Everything around her spoke and responded to her mood; a flower would blossom and she seemed to hear its breathing.
pp. 256-257”
― Oblomov
The forest held the same trees, but their sound had taken on special meaning; she had established a vibrant consonance with them. The birds did not simply twitter and chirp but were saying something to each other. Everything around her spoke and responded to her mood; a flower would blossom and she seemed to hear its breathing.
pp. 256-257”
― Oblomov
![Ivan Goncharov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1334441735i/5326370._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“Life is duty and obligation, therefore love, too, is a duty. It's as if God sent it to me,' she said, looking up at the sky, 'and told me to love.'
p. 265”
― Oblomov
p. 265”
― Oblomov
![Ivan Goncharov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1334441735i/5326370._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“A lover of comfort might shrug after looking at the whole apparent jumble of furniture, old paintings, statues with missing arms and legs, engravings that were sometimes bad but precious in memory, and bric-a-brac. Only the eye of a connoisseur would have blazed with eagerness at the sight of this painting or that, some book yellowed with age, a piece of old porcelain, or stones and coins.
But the furniture and paintings of different ages, the bric-a-brac that meant nothing to anyone but had been marked for them both by a happy hour or memorable moment, and the ocean of books and sheet music breathed a warm life that oddly stimulated the mind and aesthetic sense. Present everywhere was vigilant thought. The beauty of human effort shone here, just as the eternal beauty of nature shone all around.
pp. 492-493”
― Oblomov
But the furniture and paintings of different ages, the bric-a-brac that meant nothing to anyone but had been marked for them both by a happy hour or memorable moment, and the ocean of books and sheet music breathed a warm life that oddly stimulated the mind and aesthetic sense. Present everywhere was vigilant thought. The beauty of human effort shone here, just as the eternal beauty of nature shone all around.
pp. 492-493”
― Oblomov
![Ivan Goncharov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1334441735i/5326370._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“But in love, merit is won blindly and unaccountably, and in this blindness and unaccountability lies happiness.
pp. 445-446”
― Oblomov
pp. 445-446”
― Oblomov
![Ivan Goncharov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1334441735i/5326370._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“He had never clearly fathomed the true weight of a word of good, truth, and purity cast in the stream of human speech and the deep bend it cut in it. Nor had he thought that a word spoken boldly and loudly, with no hint of false shame, but rather with courage, that this word would not drown in the ugly cries of fashionable satyrs but would plunge like a pearl into the abyss of public life and always find itself a shell.
Many stumble over a good word, blushing in embarrassment, and utter a careless word boldly and loudly, never suspecting that it, too, unfortunately, will not go for naught but will leave a long trail of often times ineradicable evil.
p. 296”
― Oblomov
Many stumble over a good word, blushing in embarrassment, and utter a careless word boldly and loudly, never suspecting that it, too, unfortunately, will not go for naught but will leave a long trail of often times ineradicable evil.
p. 296”
― Oblomov
![Ivan Goncharov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1334441735i/5326370._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart's passion blazes more brightly and its longing aches more painfully, the grain of criminal thought ripens in a cruel soul more imperturbably and powerfully.”
― Oblomov
― Oblomov
![Ivan Goncharov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1334441735i/5326370._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“As a young man, he had instinctively husbanded the freshness of his powers. At the time, it was too soon to see that this freshness was giving birth to vivacity and gaiety, and shape to the courage needed to forge a soul that does not pale, no matter what life brings, regards life not as a heavy burden, a cross, but merely as a duty, and does battle with it with dignity.
He had devoted much mental care to his heart and its wise laws. Observing the reflection of beauty on the imagination, both consciously and unconsciously, then the transition from impression to emotion, its symptoms, play, and outcome and looking around himself, advancing into life, he derived for himself the conviction that love moves the world like Archimede's lever, that it holds as much universal and irrefutable truth and good as misunderstanding and misuse do hypocrisy and ugliness.
p. 494”
― Oblomov
He had devoted much mental care to his heart and its wise laws. Observing the reflection of beauty on the imagination, both consciously and unconsciously, then the transition from impression to emotion, its symptoms, play, and outcome and looking around himself, advancing into life, he derived for himself the conviction that love moves the world like Archimede's lever, that it holds as much universal and irrefutable truth and good as misunderstanding and misuse do hypocrisy and ugliness.
p. 494”
― Oblomov
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