Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
IVAN TURGENEV
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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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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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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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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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
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Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he’s something innately superior, something eternal–and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
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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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A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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