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The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

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From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

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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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In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

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As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

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Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

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Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

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Honest work is much better than a mansion.

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What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

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To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

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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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She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

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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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And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

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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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Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

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