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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

Ivan Turgenev

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
So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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Dreams Oneself Soar Start Tired
I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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Expression Impossible Mindset Oneself
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
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Fools Happiness Monster Ourselves Young
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
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Acknowledgement Care Crush Human Logic Nature Recognition
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Blow Different People Understand
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Reach Stars
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Grieve Life Meadow Myself Walk
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

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