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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.

Ivan Turgenev

I’m through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me…. If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.
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Alone Bad Existence Fact Myself
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
Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Company Help Need Support
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word
Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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Angry Failure Far Jealous Road Strength
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
We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Reach Stars
I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Man Myself Opinion Share
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
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Beginning Love Myself
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
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
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 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
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Death Yourself

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.

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