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Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

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Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."

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A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.

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From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.

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After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.

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Faith is the force of life.

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If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.

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Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one's suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering.

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Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

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The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.

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And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.

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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

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What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

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The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

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The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

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There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

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I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

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If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

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