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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Ivan Turgenev

The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Believe One Liner
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Death Yourself
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
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
IVAN TURGENEV

Blow Different People Understand
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
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
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
Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Company Help Need Support
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
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
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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Curse Fate Happiness Hurt Precious Right Worst Yourself
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
Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Appetite Sick Spoil
I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Grieve Life Meadow Myself Walk

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

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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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