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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and he...more

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If you want to be happy, be.

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The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in ...more

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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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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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Love those you hate you.

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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.