God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...
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Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.
Quoted by Leo Tolstoy
If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself.
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The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.
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To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life.
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Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.
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It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.
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One needs a vision of the promised land in order to have the strength to move.
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He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.
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Freedom is the content. Inevitability is the form.
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All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.
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Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.
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All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.
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I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
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How can one be well...when one suffers morally?
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Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it
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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
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I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.
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I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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