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Take what you can yourself, and don’t let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

Ivan Turgenev

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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Feeling Life Moments Pass Point
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
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Creation Destroy Nature Right
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
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
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
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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God Greatness Mathematics
Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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Beginning Detail Fate Guide Hands Harsh Ourselves
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Man Miracle Prayer Reduce
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
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
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
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
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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Circumstance Force Punishment Road

Take what you can yourself, and don’t let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

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