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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

Ivan Turgenev

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
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Human Known Notice Pass Quick Time
I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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Actor Flirt Heart Nature
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
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
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
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Heaven Myself
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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Heat heavy Pass Return Sleep Time Wait
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Built Happiness Man
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
I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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Feeling Live Myself Time
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
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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Body Condition Feeling Himself Love Permission Possession Sick Soul Willing
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Bird Fairy Tale Feed
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop

That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

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