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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

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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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Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

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Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.

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For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

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Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

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When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

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

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There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

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Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

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There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

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When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."

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These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.

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There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

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It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

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If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

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