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

Ivan Turgenev

He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
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Himself Polite Respect Soul
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
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
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Better Existence Poetry Talk Truth
I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Grieve Life Meadow Myself Walk
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
I’m incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn’t want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I’d never experienced it.
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Description Experience Feeling Myself Repeat
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word
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
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
Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Appetite Sick Spoil
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
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Man Myself Opinion Share

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