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Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

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The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

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But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

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We are all happy if we but knew it.

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I have a plan-to go mad.

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An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

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God knows what lives in me in place of me.

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I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings of what? Of the truth , for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes , have seen it in all its glory .

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I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.

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Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.

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To cook your hare you must first catch it.

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And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

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For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.

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So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

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... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

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Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.

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Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.

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The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

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Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

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