"It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle."
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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them."
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"Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be."
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"Everything intelligent is so boring."
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"The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world."
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"In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it."
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"It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?"
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"Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?"
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"There are such repulsive faces in the world."
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"You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking."
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"From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid."
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"In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me."
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"God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling."
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"The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour. He will strive to give the fruit of that supreme spiritual force which passes through him to the greatest number of people, because this conveying of the feelings that have been born in him to the greatest number of people is his joy and his reward. The artist of the future will not even understand how it is possible for an artist, whose joy consists in the widest dissemination of his works, to give these works only in exchange for a certain payment."
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"Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands."
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"It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans."
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"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man."
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"Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something."
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"I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy."
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