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“Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.”
Ivan Turgenev
Reality
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Survival
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Beauty
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Truth
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Harshness
2.
“That the heart cannot choose but love. That’s where poetry’s so fine; it tells us what is not, what’s not only better than what is, but much more like the truth, “cannot choose but love,” – it might want not to, but it can’t help it.”
Ivan Turgenev
Love
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Poetry
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Truth
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Heart
,
Fate
3.
“I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to acknowledge to myself that I was not loved;.”
Ivan Turgenev
Denial
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Love
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Pain
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Truth
,
Emotion
4.
“To tell about a drunken muzhik’s beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the ‘woman question.’”
Ivan Turgenev
Truth
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Abuse
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Society
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Reality
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Storytelling
5.
“Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!”
Ivan Turgenev
Death
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Mortality
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Truth
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Challenge
,
Reality
6.
“One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.”
Ivan Turgenev
Self
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Enthusiasm
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Expression
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Fire
,
Truth
7.
“Those were Anna Sergeyevna’s words, and those were Bazarovs; both thought they spoke the truth. Did their words hold the truth, the whole truth? They didn’t know it themselves, much less does the author. But their conversation went as if they completely believed one another.”
Ivan Turgenev
Dialogue
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Relativity
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Truth
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Perception
,
Mutual Belief
8.
“Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.”
Camille Paglia
Pornography
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Sexuality
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Philosophy
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Culture
,
Truth
9.
“A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.”
J.P. Morgan
Reason
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Truth
,
Perception
,
Action
,
Motivation
10.
“I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.”
J.P. Morgan
Honesty
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Integrity
,
Truth
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Ethics
,
Trust
11.
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”
J.P. Morgan
Reason
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Truth
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Decision
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Motivation
,
Perception
12.
“Let us be like the man of the frontier and always reveal with utmost honesty our real reasons for all that we do.”
J.P. Morgan
Honesty
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Truth
,
Integrity
,
Transparency
,
Principle
13.
“Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.”
John D. Rockefeller
Truth
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Awareness
,
Reality
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Wisdom
,
Self-Deception
14.
“The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.”
Andrew Carnegie
Wisdom
,
Actions
,
Integrity
,
Truth
,
Experience
15.
“Every picture of you is when you were younger.”
Mitch Hedberg
Picture
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Younger
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Time
,
Truth
,
Humor
16.
“Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.”
Charles Lamb
Simplicity
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Life
,
Truth
,
Nature
,
Authenticity
17.
“Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.”
Charles Lamb
Thought
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Perspective
,
Wisdom
,
Truth
,
Expression
18.
“This world is all a fleeting show, For man’s illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, There’s nothing true but Heaven.”
Charles Lamb
Life
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Illusion
,
Truth
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Spirituality
,
Transience
19.
“The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.”
Charles Lamb
Storytelling
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Humor
,
Truth
,
Exaggeration
,
Entertainment
20.
“It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.”
Margaret Fuller
Women
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Love
,
Truth
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Purpose
,
Existence
21.
“Be what you would seem to be.”
Margaret Fuller
Authenticity
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Character
,
Truth
,
Integrity
,
Identity
22.
“It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.”
Margaret Fuller
Truth
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Integrity
,
Wisdom
,
Honesty
,
Strength
23.
“Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.”
Margaret Fuller
Truth
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Genius
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Individuality
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Originality
,
Integrity
24.
“Truth is the nursing mother of genius.”
Margaret Fuller
Truth
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Genius
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Knowledge
,
Inspiration
,
Wisdom
25.
“Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.”
Margaret Fuller
Truth
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Life
,
Growth
,
Perception
,
Knowledge
26.
“Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.”
Margaret Fuller
Truth
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Honesty
,
Reality
,
Integrity
,
Clarity
27.
“All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.”
Margaret Fuller
Greatness
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Perception
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Individuality
,
Truth
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Influence
28.
“The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.”
Steven Wright
Perspective
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Reality
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Observation
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Truth
,
Humor
29.
“Because I don’t believe everything I read.”
Steven Wright
Skepticism
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Truth
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Critical Thinking
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Awareness
,
Perspective
30.
“I took a lie detector test the other day. No, I didn’t.”
Steven Wright
Truth
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Lies
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Irony
,
Humor
,
Absurdity
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