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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.

Ivan Turgenev

Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Blow Different People Understand
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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Ego Feeling Goodness Strength
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Company Help Need Support
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Beginning Love Myself
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Man Miracle Prayer Reduce
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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Circumstance Force Punishment Road
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
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
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
Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
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Death Goodness Leaving Time Water
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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Body Condition Feeling Himself Love Permission Possession Sick Soul Willing

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