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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

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Grieve Life Meadow Myself Walk
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
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Company Help Need Support
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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Description Experience Feeling Myself Repeat
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 don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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Expression Impossible Mindset Oneself
He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
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Himself Polite Respect Soul
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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God Greatness Mathematics
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Blow Different People Understand
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
The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Believe One Liner
Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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Force Myself Talk
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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Difficult Human Live Moments Open Spoil

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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