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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

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It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

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I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

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To think too much is a disease.

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Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

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Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

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I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom […] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil?

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

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I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays & the soft tender gentle memories that come with them...’ -Father Zossima

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When reason fails, the devil helps!

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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

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I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

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But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.

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Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

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To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

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One can fall in love and still hate.

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Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task.

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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

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People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

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