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God gave the day, God gave the strength.

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How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of animals; and one's abode, the eart...more

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To love life is to love God.

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Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.

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It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal mea...more

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Mento mori—remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If...more

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In the depths of his soul Ivan Ilyich knew that he was dying... he simply did not, he could not possibly understand it. The example of a syllogism he ...more

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No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather A...more

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I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really...more

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I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it w...more

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God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...

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In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had b...more

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He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his life to the end, until dea...more

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The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in l...more

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And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.