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God gave the day, God gave the strength.

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Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and w...more

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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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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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it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

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The idea of seeking help in her difficulty in religion was as remote from her as seeking help from Alexey Alexandrovitch himself, although she had nev...more

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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

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I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets ...more

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But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick an...more

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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

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And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, th...more