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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

Ivan Turgenev

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
I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Man Myself Opinion Share
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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Death Fear Love Myself Thinking Togetherness
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
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
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Children Indecision People Word
I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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Expression Impossible Mindset Oneself
What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Important Stupidity
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
Take what you can yourself, and don’t let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
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Hands Independent Life Yourself
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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Feeling Life Moments Pass Point
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
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Character Fate Necessary People Responsibility Willing
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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Curse Fate Happiness Hurt Precious Right Worst Yourself
Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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Beginning Detail Fate Guide Hands Harsh Ourselves
What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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Expectation Future Hope Instant Mourn Oneself Rise

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