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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?

Ivan Turgenev

I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
IVAN TURGENEV

Expression Impossible Mindset Oneself
Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
IVAN TURGENEV

Force Myself Talk
Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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Beginning Detail Fate Guide Hands Harsh Ourselves
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Bird Fairy Tale Feed
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
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
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Earth Fire Happiness Oneself Talk
Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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Adopt Ideas Myself Opinion
I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Man Myself Opinion Share
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Built Happiness Man
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
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
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Character Fate Necessary People Responsibility Willing
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Atheist Fact Simplicity
The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Believe One Liner
Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Essence Life Lying Oneself
What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Important Stupidity

The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?

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