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Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?
If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre
Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.
Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.
The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.
Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?
Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.
Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.
And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.
Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.
The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth
And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.
I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.
but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.
There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.
She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.
Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich
War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.
Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.
Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?
"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."
Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!
From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.