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"Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom."
"When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid."
"He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love."
"What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important."
"It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence."
"Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got."
"And where love ends, hate begins"
"To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege."
"I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare."
"Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him."
"I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it."
"Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life."
"Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence."
"And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go."
"Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth."
"He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires."
"And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained."
"The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones."
"Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!"
"God gave the day, God gave the strength."