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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.

Ivan Turgenev

That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Bored Children Parents
We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Reach Stars
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
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 don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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Expression Impossible Mindset Oneself
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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God Greatness Mathematics
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
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 did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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Expectation Future Hope Instant Mourn Oneself Rise
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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Desire Expectation Genuine Holy Sympathy
Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
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Heat heavy Pass Return Sleep Time Wait
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
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Friendly Live People Soul Yourself
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
What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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Degrade Essence Life Terrible
The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Believe One Liner

I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.

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