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I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.

Ivan Turgenev

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
IVAN TURGENEV

Desire Expectation Genuine Holy Sympathy
Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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Angry Failure Far Jealous Road Strength
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Built Happiness Man
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Beginning Love Myself
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Man Nature Temple Workshop
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
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
That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
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Better Existence Poetry Talk Truth
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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God Greatness Mathematics
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
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
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
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

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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