Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev. Correspondence (№ 363985)

Separation! Separation to carry and difficult and easy. Would be safe and untouched faith in him whom love - longing of separation, the soul will win... I will Say more: only then left one, she learns the sweetness of solitude, not barren, but full of memories and thoughts; only then she finds out, he'll feel stronger... In letters to a distant friend she will find a foothold; in his it may be the first time you speak quite... But as two people who went from the source of the river in different banks, first can submit to each other, then only communicate by voice, finally have lost each other from sight, and the two creatures are separated at last by separation. So what! you say: apparently, they were not meant to go together... But here is the difference between a man and a woman. The man means nothing to start a new life, to shake off all the past down: a woman can not. No, she can not lose his past, can not break away from her roots - no, a thousand times no!