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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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People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these d...more

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We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditione...more

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To destroy the life that dwells in othersis beyond your power. The life of those you have slainhas vanished from your eyes, but is not destroyed. Yout...more

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Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing the progress o...more

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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

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My field was God’s earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called his own. Labor was the only thing men c...more

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truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being...more

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and ...more

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In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

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A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

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Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

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There are such repulsive faces in the world.