| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 61839 |
| QUOTATION: | What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883), Russian author. Narrator, “Enough,” ch. 13 (1865). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Turgenev Collection. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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