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

Ivan Turgenev

Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Blow Different People Understand
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
Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Essence Life Lying Oneself
I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Man Myself Opinion Share
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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God Greatness Mathematics
That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Bored Children Parents
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Company Help Need Support
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
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
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Creation Destroy Nature Right
Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
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Human Known Notice Pass Quick Time
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Man Miracle Prayer Reduce
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
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table

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