Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
IVAN TURGENEV
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Love isn’t actually a feeling at all–it’s an illness, a certain condition of body and soul…. Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will–just like cholera or a fever.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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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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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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