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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have...more

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I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becomin...more

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It is usually imagined that a thief, a murderer, a spy, a prostitute, acknowledging his profession as evil, is ashamed of it. But the contrary is true...more

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One may deal with things without love...but you cannot deal with men without it...It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law ...more

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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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It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcel...more

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But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all they manage to ...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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Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important pe...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

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Este incredibil cât de completă este iluzia care ne face să credem că frumuseţea este în genere bunătate.

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During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old comforting and hopeless conclusion: that there was no n...more

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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 k...more