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I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

Ivan Turgenev

No matter how often you knock at nature’s door, she won’t answer in words you can understand–for Nature is dumb. She’ll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn’t expect a song.
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Answer Expectation Nature Song Spiritual Understand Word Yourself
Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Company Help Need Support
I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Achievement Flower Love Myself Production
I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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Myself Oneself Opinion
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Blow Different People Understand
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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Admit Afraid Heart Love Myself
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Death Yourself
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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Curse Fate Happiness Hurt Precious Right Worst Yourself
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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Equality Miracle Person Prayer
Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?
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Feeling Joy Love Soft Soul Sound Touch Yourself
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
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
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
I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Man Myself Opinion Share
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Heaven Myself

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

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