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That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

Ivan Turgenev

What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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Expectation Future Hope Instant Mourn Oneself Rise
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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Ego Feeling Goodness Strength
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Children Indecision People Word
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Death Yourself
I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Man Myself Opinion Share
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Atheist Fact Simplicity
Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Company Help Need Support
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Bird Fairy Tale Feed
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Bored Children Parents
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
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Difficult Feeling Home Kind Religious Survive Training
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Heaven Myself
That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
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I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
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Creation Destroy Nature Right

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

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That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

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