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

Ivan Turgenev

Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Appetite Sick Spoil
I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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Admit Afraid Heart Love Myself
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
I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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Happiness Myself Place Room Stay Water
Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there’ll come a time when you’ll start asking just for a crust.
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Eat Regard Time Yourself Youth
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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Curse Fate Happiness Hurt Precious Right Worst Yourself
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Important Stupidity
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
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Earth Fire Happiness Oneself Talk
Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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Equality Miracle Person Prayer
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
I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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Myself Oneself Opinion
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
All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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Difficult Human Live Moments Open Spoil

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

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