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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

I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Death Yourself
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Atheist Fact Simplicity
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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Acknowledgement Care Crush Human Logic Nature Recognition
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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Expectation Future Hope Instant Mourn Oneself Rise
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
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Built Happiness Man
No matter how often you knock at nature’s door, she won’t answer in words you can understand–for Nature is dumb. She’ll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn’t expect a song.
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Answer Expectation Nature Song Spiritual Understand Word Yourself
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Bored Children Parents
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
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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Difficult Human Live Moments Open Spoil

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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