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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

Ivan Turgenev

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
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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Myself Oneself Opinion
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
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Beginning Love Myself
Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Appetite Sick Spoil
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
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Achievement Flower Love Myself Production
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
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
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Death Yourself
That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Bored Children Parents
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
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
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop

Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

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