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He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.

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To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

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If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

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Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

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God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

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All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'

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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

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You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

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Man is what he believes.

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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

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