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War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

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I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

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Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the ...more

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Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

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Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills...more

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Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ei.

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They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

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Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

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I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of be...more

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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have...more

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He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be...more

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Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to priva...more

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They say: misfortunes, sufferings...well, if someone said to me right now, this minute: do you want to remain the way you were before captivity, or li...more

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Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury t...more

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