There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
IVAN TURGENEVTime, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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I’m incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn’t want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I’d never experienced it.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
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Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
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