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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Ivan Turgenev

I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Man Miracle Prayer Reduce
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Blow Different People Understand
I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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Myself Oneself Opinion
That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Bored Children Parents
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.
IVAN TURGENEV

Better Existence Poetry Talk Truth
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Atheist Fact Simplicity
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Beginning Love Myself
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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Creation Destroy Nature Right
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
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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Angry Failure Far Jealous Road Strength
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Heaven Myself
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar

However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

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