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

Ivan Turgenev

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
IVAN TURGENEV

Beginning Moments Patience Wait
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
IVAN TURGENEV

Built Happiness Man
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
IVAN TURGENEV

Angry Come Himself Person
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
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.
IVAN TURGENEV

Better Existence Poetry Talk Truth
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
IVAN TURGENEV

Death Deep Encounter Joke New
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
IVAN TURGENEV

Dreams Past Remember
Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
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Heat heavy Pass Return Sleep Time Wait
I never started from ideas but always from character.
IVAN TURGENEV

Character Ideas Myself Start
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
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Fools Happiness Monster Ourselves Young
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
The temerity to believe in nothing.
IVAN TURGENEV

Believe One Liner
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
IVAN TURGENEV

Heaven Myself

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