"The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals."
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"Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread"."
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"Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death."
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"There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'"
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"She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self."
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"It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary."
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"At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything - in other words, utter savages."
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"In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful."
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"Children: a torment and nothing more."
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"Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it."
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"When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!"
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"There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth."
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"Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . ."
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"We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us."
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"He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly"
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"Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?"
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"One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others` mind. I can think of it myself. " Why should one think of something, when it is already thought about. Take it and go farther, this is the strength of the mankind."
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"The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left."
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"The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?"
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"God is the same everywhere."
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