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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

Ivan Turgenev

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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Branch Himself Son Willing
I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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Actor Flirt Heart Nature
Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Essence Life Lying Oneself
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
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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Difficult Feeling Home Kind Religious Survive Training
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
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Character Fate Necessary People Responsibility Willing
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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Feeling Life Moments Pass Point
Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Appetite Sick Spoil
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Blow Different People Understand
The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Believe One Liner
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
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?
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Expectation Future Hope Instant Mourn Oneself Rise
Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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Beginning Detail Fate Guide Hands Harsh Ourselves
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Atheist Fact Simplicity
All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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Difficult Human Live Moments Open Spoil

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