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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

Ivan Turgenev

That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Bored Children Parents
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
We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Reach Stars
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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God Greatness Mathematics
I’m through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me…. If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.
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Alone Bad Existence Fact Myself
I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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Expression Impossible Mindset Oneself
What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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Degrade Essence Life Terrible
What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Important Stupidity
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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Equality Miracle Person Prayer
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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Adopt Ideas Myself Opinion
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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Desire Expectation Genuine Holy Sympathy
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
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Childhood Cultivation Life Ourselves Past Personality Task
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Man Miracle Prayer Reduce
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

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