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I never started from ideas but always from character.

Ivan Turgenev

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
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Country Day Doubt Fate Freedom Language Myself
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
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Children Indecision People Word
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Death Deep Encounter Joke New
Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Essence Life Lying Oneself
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
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
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
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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Alone Bad Existence Fact Myself
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
I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Character Ideas Myself Start
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
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
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
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Acknowledgement Care Crush Human Logic Nature Recognition

I never started from ideas but always from character.

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