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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.

Ivan Turgenev

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
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word
What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Important Stupidity
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
I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Achievement Flower Love Myself Production
The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Believe One Liner
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
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
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
I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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Convince Difficult Oneself Person Treat
I’m incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn’t want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I’d never experienced it.
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Description Experience Feeling Myself Repeat
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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Ego Feeling Goodness Strength
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Bird Fairy Tale Feed
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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Feeling Live Myself Time

In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.

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