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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

Ivan Turgenev

I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
IVAN TURGENEV

Feeling Live Myself Time
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Blow Different People Understand
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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Circumstance Force Punishment Road
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Beginning Love Myself
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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God Greatness Mathematics
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
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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Difficult Feeling Home Kind Religious Survive Training
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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Ego Feeling Goodness Strength
Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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Adopt Ideas Myself Opinion
Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
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Human Known Notice Pass Quick Time
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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Death Fear Love Myself Thinking Togetherness
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Built Happiness Man
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he’s something innately superior, something eternal–and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
IVAN TURGENEV

Aware Forever Moments Obligation Spiritual

Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

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