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The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

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What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

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Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

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... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.

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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

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All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.

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When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

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Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

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Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is far from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

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Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

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Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness

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Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.

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Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

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We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

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In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.

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And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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Without Greek studies there is no education.

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To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

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