"Music is love in search of a voice."
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"Every heart has its own skeletons."
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"Read less, study less, but think more"
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"The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life."
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"All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom."
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"Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult."
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"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed."
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"... women are the pivot round which the world turns."
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"Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death."
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"Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives."
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"It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong."
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"The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God."
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"You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you."
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"For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite."
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"If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love."
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"To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them."
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"I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew."
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"A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship."
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"Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it."
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"Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers."
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