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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 was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

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Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.

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I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

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Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

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

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Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.

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War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

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All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.

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Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

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I don’t count life as life without love

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There are as many loves as there are hearts.

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The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

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With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

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For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

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In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

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The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.

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Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

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