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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

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War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

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I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.

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God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

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Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers.

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Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

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Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

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By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

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It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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God knows, but He's waiting

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

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The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

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The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.

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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

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Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

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I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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