"It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said."
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"We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating."
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"Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!"
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"Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people."
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"A good person will feel guilty even before a dog."
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"It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich."
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"I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life."
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"The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection."
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"Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals."
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"From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not hiding from people but from our vanity, which in town among people is unjust and active beyond measure."
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"Great Jove angry is no longer Jove."
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"I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?"
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"He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom."
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