That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
IVAN TURGENEV
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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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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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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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I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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