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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

Ivan Turgenev

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
I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Man Myself Opinion Share
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
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
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 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
All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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Difficult Human Live Moments Open Spoil
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Heaven Myself
Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Essence Life Lying Oneself
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
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
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
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word

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