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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.

Ivan Turgenev

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
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
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
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.
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Better Existence Poetry Talk Truth
We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Reach Stars
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
Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Appetite Sick Spoil
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
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
What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Important Stupidity
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
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 am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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Actor Flirt Heart Nature
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
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

I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.

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