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Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

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But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

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If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

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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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I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

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The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.

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Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

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I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .

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

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Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."

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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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We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

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The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

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Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

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Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

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What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.

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And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

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On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

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