I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
IVAN TURGENEV
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
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Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
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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.
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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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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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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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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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Significance is sweet.
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