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Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

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I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

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In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

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One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

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Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

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When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

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In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

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The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

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It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it.

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

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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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It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.

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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.

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For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

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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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The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.

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Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

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I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

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