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Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

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That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

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Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

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... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person

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There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

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Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

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With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

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Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

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You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

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Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

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If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

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I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.

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Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty.

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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

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Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

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If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.

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The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

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