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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!

Ivan Turgenev

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
Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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Force Myself Talk
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
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
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
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Blow Different People Understand
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
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
A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
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Branch Himself Son Willing
What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Important Stupidity
I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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Expression Impossible Mindset Oneself
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Appetite Sick Spoil
I’m through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me…. If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.
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Alone Bad Existence Fact Myself
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Death Yourself

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