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.
IVAN TURGENEVLove, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
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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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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
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