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"If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working."
"With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks."
"From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance."
"One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied."
"If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!"
"It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it."
"... a man has to think of his soul before everything else."
"Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw."
"He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death."
"He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it."
"but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it."
"Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}"
"... it is the work and not the reward that is precious."
"History would be an excellent thing if only it were true."
"Life did not stop, and one had to live."
"The question of how things will settle down is the only important question."
"I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed."
"I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore."
"What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!"
"At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them."