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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.

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?
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Expectation Future Hope Instant Mourn Oneself Rise
I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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Happiness Myself Place Room Stay Water
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Believe One Liner
I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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Convince Difficult Oneself Person Treat
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Death Yourself
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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God Greatness Mathematics
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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Aware Forever Moments Obligation Spiritual
I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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Expression Impossible Mindset Oneself
Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
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Death Fear Love Myself Thinking Togetherness
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Beginning Love Myself
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Fools Happiness Monster Ourselves Young
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Atheist Fact Simplicity
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word

I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.

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