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 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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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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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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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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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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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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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 never started from ideas but always from character.
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