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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.

Ivan Turgenev

I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
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 fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Atheist Fact Simplicity
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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Equality Miracle Person Prayer
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
I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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Myself Oneself Opinion
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
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
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
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
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Man Miracle Prayer Reduce
Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
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Death Fear Love Myself Thinking Togetherness
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
Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Appetite Sick Spoil
I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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Actor Flirt Heart Nature

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