"Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}"
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"It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict."
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"Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith."
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"I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody."
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"A holy spirit lives within you."
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"It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for."
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"Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius - man in the abstract - was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others."
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"I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you."
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"Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world."
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"We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?"
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"Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this."
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"There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation."
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"This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer."
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"The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible."
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"In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty."
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"In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in the evolution of feelings, which takes place by means of art. Lower feelings-less kind and less needed for the good of humanity-are forced out and replaced by kinder feelings which better serve us individually and collectively. This is the purpose of art."
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"That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him"
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"Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action."
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"She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters."
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"The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?"
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