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Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

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Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

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but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.

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It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

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The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.

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We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us.

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Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.

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Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

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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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You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

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Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

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History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

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Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

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The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

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Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

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What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

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He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

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If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

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These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burst out laughing and crying for joy.

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