In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
IVAN TURGENEVSo many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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Take what you can yourself, and don’t let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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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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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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