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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Ivan Turgenev

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
IVAN TURGENEV

Actor Flirt Heart Nature
I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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Feeling Live Myself Time
That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Bored Children Parents
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Man Myself Opinion Share
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
The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Believe One Liner
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
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
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Built Happiness Man
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Man Miracle Prayer Reduce
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
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
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
What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Important Stupidity

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