A man's capable of understanding anything - how the ether vibrates, and what's going on in the sun - but how any other man can blow his nose differently from him, that he's incapable of understanding.

Ivan Turgenev
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  2. We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.

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  4. 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.

  5. That's what children are for–that their parents may not be bored.

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