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Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

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Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

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If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.

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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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Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

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Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.

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There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.

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Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

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All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

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This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

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Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

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We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

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A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

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Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

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I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

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As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

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It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

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They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and erat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us.

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