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One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.

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... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

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Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

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Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

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The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

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He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

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We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

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To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

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I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: 'None'.

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At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them.

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Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

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It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

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The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.

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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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Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

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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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All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

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