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

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

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What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

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One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.

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Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

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There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

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Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in love! Just as if, as soon as he said that, something went snap-bang - he loves. Just as if, when he utters that word, something extraordinary is bound to happen, with signs and portents, and all the cannons firing at once. It seems to me, he went on, that people who solemnly utter those words, 'I love you,' either deceive themselves, or what's still worse, deceive others.

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but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

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Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable.

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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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From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.

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He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.

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I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

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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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I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

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If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.

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