Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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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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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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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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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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