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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!

Ivan Turgenev

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Man Miracle Prayer Reduce
No matter how often you knock at nature’s door, she won’t answer in words you can understand–for Nature is dumb. She’ll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn’t expect a song.
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Answer Expectation Nature Song Spiritual Understand Word Yourself
Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
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Death Goodness Leaving Time Water
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Bird Fairy Tale Feed
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Heaven Myself
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Built Happiness Man
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Death Yourself
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Children Indecision People Word
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
Take what you can yourself, and don’t let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
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Hands Independent Life Yourself
The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Believe One Liner
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Beginning Moments Patience Wait
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
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
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

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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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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