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Quotation from The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev

“First love is like a revolution; the uniformly regular routine of ordered life is broken down and shattered in one instant”

Ivan Turgenev (spoken by The narrator)

The Torrents of Spring, Chapter XXVIII, trans. Constance Garnett (1897)

The narrator describes Sanin and Gemma newly in love.

Citation: "First love is like a revolution; the uniformly regular routine of ordered life is broken down and shattered in one instant" — Ivan Turgenev, The Torrents of Spring, Chapter XXVIII, trans. Constance Garnett (1897). (id turgenev-the-torrents-of-spring-q1)

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