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To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

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It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

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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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Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated.

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I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything." "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?" asked Dolly, smiling. "The most utterly loathsome and coarse; I can't tell you. It's not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome.

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Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

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To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

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So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

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The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

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Read less, study less, but think more

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Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel." "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.

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Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

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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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I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

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All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.

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What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

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