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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

We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Reach Stars
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
I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Grieve Life Meadow Myself Walk
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
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Children Indecision People Word
I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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Convince Difficult Oneself Person Treat
He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
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Himself Polite Respect Soul
Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Company Help Need Support
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Heaven Myself
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
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
So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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Dreams Oneself Soar Start Tired
Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he’s something innately superior, something eternal–and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
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Aware Forever Moments Obligation Spiritual
Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there’ll come a time when you’ll start asking just for a crust.
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Eat Regard Time Yourself Youth
That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Bored Children Parents

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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