Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?
IVAN TURGENEVDeath’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
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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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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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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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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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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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