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So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

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Above all, don't lie to yourself.

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To think too much is a disease.

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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

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The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.

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Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

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The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

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.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

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They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

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She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.

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He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.

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I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

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If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.

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Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

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I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

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God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

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The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

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Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

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Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

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Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

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