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Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance.

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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

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If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

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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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And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

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But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church-with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility-is to be found in Christ's words or in the conception of the men of his time.

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What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

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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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The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

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... women are the pivot round which the world turns.

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The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

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Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

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Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

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God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

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In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

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A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

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The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.

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True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.

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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

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