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We are shocked by thieves taking pride in their clever touch, prostitutes in their depravity and murderers in their callousness. But it is shocking on...more

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The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

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The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

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Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake ...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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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolut...more

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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

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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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Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time...more