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

Ivan Turgenev

I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
IVAN TURGENEV

Happiness Myself Place Room Stay Water
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
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Bored Children Parents
Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Company Help Need Support
I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
IVAN TURGENEV

Bad Goodness Heart Man Myself Terrible
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
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word
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
I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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Myself Oneself Opinion
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
IVAN TURGENEV

Bird Fairy Tale Feed
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
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Friendly Live People Soul Yourself
Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Appetite Sick Spoil
The temerity to believe in nothing.
IVAN TURGENEV

Believe One Liner

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

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