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

Ivan Turgenev

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
I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
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Bad Goodness Heart Man Myself Terrible
I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Grieve Life Meadow Myself Walk
We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Reach Stars
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Blow Different People Understand
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Atheist Fact Simplicity
Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?
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Feeling Joy Love Soft Soul Sound Touch Yourself
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Children Indecision People Word
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word
So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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Dreams Oneself Soar Start Tired
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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Hands Independent Life Yourself
Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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Force Myself Talk
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
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
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

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