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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?

Ivan Turgenev

What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
IVAN TURGENEV

Expectation Future Hope Instant Mourn Oneself Rise
I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
IVAN TURGENEV

Expression Impossible Mindset Oneself
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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Actor Flirt Heart Nature
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
I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Man Myself Opinion Share
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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Human Known Notice Pass Quick Time
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Heaven Myself
Behind me there are already so many memories Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for I just don’t want to go along it.
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Goal Memories Myself Point Remember Road
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
I’m through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me…. If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.
IVAN TURGENEV

Alone Bad Existence Fact Myself
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
Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there’ll come a time when you’ll start asking just for a crust.
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Eat Regard Time Yourself Youth
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table

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