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No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather A...more

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I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really...more

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I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it w...more

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God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...

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In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had b...more

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He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his life to the end, until dea...more

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The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in l...more

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And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

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A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with dec...more

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The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.

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All his life the example of a syllogism he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic - "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal" - had seem...more

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At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now before his eyes and turned into...more

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It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is som...more

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In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and therefore end up looking like one another: it...more

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But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives and have, by the second mont...more