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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Ivan Turgenev

I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
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
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
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
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Creation Destroy Nature Right
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Built Happiness Man
What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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Degrade Essence Life Terrible
What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Important Stupidity
He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
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Himself Polite Respect Soul
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Fools Happiness Monster Ourselves Young
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
The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Believe One Liner
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Beginning Moments Patience Wait
What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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Expectation Future Hope Instant Mourn Oneself Rise
I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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Actor Flirt Heart Nature

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