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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.

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People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

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Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

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And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

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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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Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

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Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

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Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

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Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

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

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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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There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

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Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

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Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.

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You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

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It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

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Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

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I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

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