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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.

Ivan Turgenev

I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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Feeling Live Myself Time
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.
IVAN TURGENEV

Character Fate Necessary People Responsibility Willing
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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Equality Miracle Person Prayer
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word
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
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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Degrade Essence Life Terrible
A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
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Branch Himself Son Willing
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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Feeling Joy Love Soft Soul Sound Touch Yourself
Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there’ll come a time when you’ll start asking just for a crust.
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Eat Regard Time Yourself Youth
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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Circumstance Force Punishment Road
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Built Happiness Man
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
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Atheist Fact Simplicity
We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Reach Stars

I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.

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