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Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?

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If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.

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I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.

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One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

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In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

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

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As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

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Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

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I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

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There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before.

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The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

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Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

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Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

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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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Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

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Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

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Read less, study less, but think more

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And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.

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I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

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