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I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.

Ivan Turgenev

Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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Goal Memories Myself Worth
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Man Miracle Prayer Reduce
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
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
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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Desire Expectation Genuine Holy Sympathy
Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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Equality Miracle Person Prayer
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
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
We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Reach Stars
So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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Dreams Oneself Soar Start Tired
Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there’ll come a time when you’ll start asking just for a crust.
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Eat Regard Time Yourself Youth
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
IVAN TURGENEV

Blow Different People Understand

I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.

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