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Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

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Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

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The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.

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The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis. The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves.

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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

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I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

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Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

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If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

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

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He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

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History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

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Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

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At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them.

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To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'

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One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.

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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

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From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

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To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

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