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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?

Ivan Turgenev

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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Feeling Life Moments Pass Point
The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Believe One Liner
I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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Myself Oneself Opinion
I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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Actor Flirt Heart Nature
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
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
Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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Adopt Ideas Myself Opinion
I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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Admit Afraid Heart Love Myself
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Beginning Love Myself
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
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Country Day Doubt Fate Freedom Language Myself
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Built Happiness Man
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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Dreams Oneself Soar Start Tired
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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Death Fear Love Myself Thinking Togetherness

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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