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

Ivan Turgenev

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Built Happiness Man
Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Essence Life Lying Oneself
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word
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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Autocracy Greatness Pain Reason Source Sweet
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Beginning Love Myself
I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
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Bad Goodness Heart Man Myself Terrible
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
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Bird Fairy Tale Feed
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Fools Happiness Monster Ourselves Young
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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Character Fate Necessary People Responsibility Willing
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
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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Human Known Notice Pass Quick Time
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start

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