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The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

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The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

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If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

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Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

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Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life

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She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

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Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

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In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

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To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

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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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Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

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But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

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Spring is the time of plans and projects.

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We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand

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And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

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I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same wall between my soul's holy of holies and other people, even my wife, I'll accuse her in the same way of my own fear and then regret it, I'll fail in the same way to understand with my reason why I pray, and yet I will pray--but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!

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Everything intelligent is so boring.

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