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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.

Ivan Turgenev

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
IVAN TURGENEV

Difficult Feeling Home Kind Religious Survive Training
I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
IVAN TURGENEV

Myself Oneself Opinion
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
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
IVAN TURGENEV

Body Myself Table
Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
IVAN TURGENEV

Angry Failure Far Jealous Road Strength
That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
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Better Existence Poetry Talk Truth
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Children Indecision People Word
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
IVAN TURGENEV

God Greatness Mathematics
Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
IVAN TURGENEV

Force Myself Talk
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Death Yourself
I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
IVAN TURGENEV

Man Myself Opinion Share
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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Admit Afraid Heart Love Myself
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
IVAN TURGENEV

Feeling Live Myself Time
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
IVAN TURGENEV

Atheist Fact Simplicity

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