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Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

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Commit no act that is contrary to love.

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Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

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The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

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If you want to be happy, be happy.

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Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

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And the cause of everything is that which we call God.

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In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement. When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertake. 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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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

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…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.

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What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

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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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Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

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Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

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In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

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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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And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

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Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

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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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The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

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