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My principal sin is doubt. I ...

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

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The whole trouble lies in tha...

The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.

Leo Tolstoy 910 quotes

What doubt can you have of th...

What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars? Who has clothed the earth in its beauty? How could it be without the creator?

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The chief cause of unhappines...

The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

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The highest wisdom has but on...

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

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Man cannot possess anything a...

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

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Man recognizes that he will n...

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

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Regard the society of women a...

Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

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No one has yet added up all t...

No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world's amusements. It is for this reason that "amusements" are not so amusing.

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There are such repulsive face...

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

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Honest work is much better th...

Honest work is much better than a mansion.

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The improvement of life was o...

The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.

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The artist's mission must not...

The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

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People understand the meaning...

People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

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Why am I going?" he repeated,...

Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise." "Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I.

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Why should I live? Why should...

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

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It is possible to live only a...

It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.

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In a writer there must always...

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

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Every time I tried to express...

Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.

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I feel not only that I cannot...

I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.

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