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Ivan Turgenev

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
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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Equality Miracle Person Prayer
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
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
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
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
We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Reach Stars
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Blow Different People Understand
What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Important Stupidity
Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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Force Myself Talk
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
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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Childhood Cultivation Life Ourselves Past Personality Task
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
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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Difficult Human Live Moments Open Spoil

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