In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
IVAN TURGENEVNature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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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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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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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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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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