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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

Ivan Turgenev

What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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Degrade Essence Life Terrible
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
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
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
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Atheist Fact Simplicity
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Heaven Myself
That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Bored Children Parents
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
He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
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Himself Polite Respect Soul
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
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
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
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar

That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

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