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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.

Ivan Turgenev

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
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
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
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Man Miracle Prayer Reduce
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Heaven Myself
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
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
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
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
Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Appetite Sick Spoil
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
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
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
I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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Actor Flirt Heart Nature
Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
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Death Goodness Leaving Time Water

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