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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

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History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

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He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

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Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position".

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The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?

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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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"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

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We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated.

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If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.

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If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

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How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.

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The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

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Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

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Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

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The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

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Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

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India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

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Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

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