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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

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Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

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A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

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There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

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I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

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Every heart has its own skeletons.

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The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

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The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

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Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?

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Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable.

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One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.

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the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

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To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'

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For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

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The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

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... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

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