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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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!

Ivan Turgenev

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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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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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Autocracy Source Sweet
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 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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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.

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

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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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Ego
I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.

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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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Oneself
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.

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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

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All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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Spoil
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.

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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Monster
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Reduce
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

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A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
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Religious Survive
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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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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Independent
Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.

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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Oneself
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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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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Willing
The temerity to believe in nothing.

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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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New
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.

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We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
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Cultivation

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