"Without Greek studies there is no education."
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"True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view."
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"Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost."
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"He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible."
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"There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead."
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"Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter."
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"I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it."
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"It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion."
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"Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses."
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"Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory"
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"Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?"
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"Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly."
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"Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night."
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"As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object."
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"The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity."
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"Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself."
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"A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external."
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"These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burst out laughing and crying for joy."
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"With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better."
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"It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things, not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe"
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