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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

Ivan Turgenev

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
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Friendly Live People Soul Yourself
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Blow Different People Understand
I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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Feeling Live Myself Time
No matter how often you knock at nature’s door, she won’t answer in words you can understand–for Nature is dumb. She’ll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn’t expect a song.
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Answer Expectation Nature Song Spiritual Understand Word Yourself
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?
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Feeling Joy Love Soft Soul Sound Touch Yourself
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Bored Children Parents
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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Expression Impossible Mindset Oneself
Behind me there are already so many memories Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for I just don’t want to go along it.
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Goal Memories Myself Point Remember Road
Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
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Death Goodness Leaving Time Water
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Grieve Life Meadow Myself Walk
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Death Yourself

Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

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