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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.

Ivan Turgenev

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
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
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 Greatness Pain Reason Source Sweet
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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Curse Fate Happiness Hurt Precious Right Worst Yourself
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
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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Body Condition Feeling Himself Love Permission Possession Sick Soul Willing
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
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
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
What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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Expectation Future Hope Instant Mourn Oneself Rise
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
We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Reach Stars
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
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start

What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.

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