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There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

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Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and What men live by . When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.

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Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

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Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

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Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

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We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

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The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

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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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Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

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The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

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Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

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The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.

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There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

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The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

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Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

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The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

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In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.

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Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

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