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In the end, nature is inexorab...

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

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However much you knock at natu...

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

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Time, as is well known, someti...

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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A poet must be a psychologist,...

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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To desire and expect nothing f...

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

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Bazarov drew himself up haught...

Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. 'I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own.

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Great God, grant that twice tw...

Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

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I believe love produces a cert...

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve....

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Go forward while you can, but ...

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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Death is like a fisherman, who...

Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

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However passionate, sinning, a...

However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of 'indifferent' nature: they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.

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The temerity to believe in not...

The temerity to believe in nothing.

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I must say, though, that a man...

I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card is trumped, falls to pieces and lets himself go to the dogs -- a fellow like that is not a man, not a male. You say he's unhappy -- you know best. But all the nonsense hasn't been taken out of him yet. I'm sure he really believes he's a smart fellow just because he reads that rag Galignani and saves a muzhik from a flogging once a month.

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If we wait for the moment when...

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

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Nothing is worse and more hurt...

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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I was as happy as a fish in wa...

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 never started from ideas but...

I never started from ideas but always from character.

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You may live a long while with...

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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The fact is that previously th...

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

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What's important is that twice...

What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.

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