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These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.

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Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

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When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."

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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

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The most important time is Now

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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

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I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

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Where there is love, there is God also.

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…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.

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He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

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In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

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A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

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Boredom is desire seeking desire.

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The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

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Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

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I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

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The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

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Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

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Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

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Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

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