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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.

Ivan Turgenev

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
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Bird Fairy Tale Feed
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
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
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
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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Curse Fate Happiness Hurt Precious Right Worst Yourself
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
Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Essence Life Lying Oneself
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
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
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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Expectation Future Hope Instant Mourn Oneself Rise
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Achievement Flower Love Myself Production
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

Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.

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