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

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
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Beginning Moments Patience Wait
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
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Friendly Live People Soul Yourself
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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God Greatness Mathematics
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
We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Reach Stars
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
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
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
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
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
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
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
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
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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Myself Oneself Opinion
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Bird Fairy Tale Feed
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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Adopt Ideas Myself Opinion
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
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Children Indecision People Word
So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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Goal Memories Myself Worth
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
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
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
There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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Autocracy Greatness Pain Reason Source Sweet

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

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