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I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

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Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

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Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

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People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul

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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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The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

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The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

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Physical violence is the basis of authority.

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It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.

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One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

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Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause.... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity.

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... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

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Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.

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The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

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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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That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him

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

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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

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