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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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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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Love those you hate you.

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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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There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.

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Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

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Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

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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