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In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

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Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

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Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

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The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

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Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

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Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.

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

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The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

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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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I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

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The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.

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Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is far from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

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Kings are the slaves of history.

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I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.

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The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

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She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

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