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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.

Ivan Turgenev

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
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Answer Door Nature Word
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
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Built Happiness Man
We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Reach Stars
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
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Beginning Moments Patience Wait
Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
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Human Known Notice Pass Quick Time
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Bird Fairy Tale Feed
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
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Children Indecision People Word
I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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Feeling Live Myself Time
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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God Greatness Mathematics
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

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.

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