"I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined."
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"Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit."
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"All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love."
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"At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?"
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"He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love."
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"Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth."
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"You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!"
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"And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful."
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"In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity."
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"And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat."
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"I don’t count life as life without love"
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"The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis. The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves."
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"Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not."
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"There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife."
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"ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God."
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"God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part."
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"So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word."
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"How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!"
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"There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil."
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"All art has this characteristic-it unites people."
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