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I never started from ideas but always from character.

Ivan Turgenev

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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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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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Known Pass
Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

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Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
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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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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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Day Doubt Language
Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.

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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.

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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.

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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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Expression Mindset Oneself
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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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 Source Sweet
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.

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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Mediocre
I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Production
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.

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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.

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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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Holy
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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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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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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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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Oneself Soar
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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