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To love life is to love God.

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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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She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

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Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in that ordinary life through wh...more

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...but most of all he liked to listen to stories of real life. He smiled gleefully as he listened to such stories, putting in words and asking questio...more

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Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power an...more