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

Ivan Turgenev

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
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
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
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Bird Fairy Tale Feed
We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Reach Stars
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
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Acknowledgement Care Crush Human Logic Nature Recognition
I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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Happiness Myself Place Room Stay Water
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Beginning Moments Patience Wait
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
Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Company Help Need Support
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
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Country Day Doubt Fate Freedom Language Myself
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Built Happiness Man
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Man Myself Opinion Share
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar

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

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