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

Ivan Turgenev

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
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
I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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Admit Afraid Heart Love Myself
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
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Grieve Life Meadow Myself Walk
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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Degrade Essence Life Terrible
Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Appetite Sick Spoil
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
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
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
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
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
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Beginning Moments Patience Wait
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet

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

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