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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

~Ivan Turgenev

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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

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Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

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I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

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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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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for 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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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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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Novelist

Born: October 28th, 1818

Died: September 3rd, 1883

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