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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

Ivan Turgenev

However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word
That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Bored Children Parents
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
IVAN TURGENEV

Blow Different People Understand
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
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Bird Fairy Tale Feed
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
Behind me there are already so many memories Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for I just don’t want to go along it.
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Goal Memories Myself Point Remember Road
I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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Happiness Myself Place Room Stay Water
I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
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Bad Goodness Heart Man Myself Terrible
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
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
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Children Indecision People Word
Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
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Heat heavy Pass Return Sleep Time Wait
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Fools Happiness Monster Ourselves Young

Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

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