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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

Ivan Turgenev

A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Company Help Need Support
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
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 poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
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Difficult Feeling Home Kind Religious Survive Training
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Man Miracle Prayer Reduce
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
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
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Beginning Love Myself
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
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
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
Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Essence Life Lying Oneself
What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Important Stupidity
That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Bored Children Parents
Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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Beginning Detail Fate Guide Hands Harsh Ourselves

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

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