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Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

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When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

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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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Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

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Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

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In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.

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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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What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.

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Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

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Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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Every heart has its own skeletons.

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Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

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He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

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Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

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Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

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I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

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We're asleep until we love.

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In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

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Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

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