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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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the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

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The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous.

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People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

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If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

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Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

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Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.

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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

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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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To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

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It is very difficult to tell the truth.

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He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

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Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

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By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

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As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

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There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

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I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

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