What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
IVAN TURGENEVTime, 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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Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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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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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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Significance is sweet.
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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.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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