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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Ivan Turgenev

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
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
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Atheist Fact Simplicity
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Children Indecision People Word
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
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’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
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
Love isn’t actually a feeling at all–it’s an illness, a certain condition of body and soul…. Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will–just like cholera or a fever.
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Body Condition Feeling Himself Love Permission Possession Sick Soul Willing
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Built Happiness Man
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Death Yourself
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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Hands Independent Life Yourself
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Bird Fairy Tale Feed
What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Important Stupidity

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