The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
IVAN TURGENEVYouth 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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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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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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A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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I’m through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me…. If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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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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So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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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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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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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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