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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.

Ivan Turgenev

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
Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Appetite Sick Spoil
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
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Childhood Cultivation Life Ourselves Past Personality Task
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Beginning Love Myself
We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Reach Stars
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Essence Life Lying Oneself
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
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
I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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Convince Difficult Oneself Person Treat
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Man Miracle Prayer Reduce
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Children Indecision People Word

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