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quarrel with Yeremi at the time, still Chigirin
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I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.
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She prefers simply a life in the shape of an Apollo to that of humpbacked Pulcinello; that is her philosophy. She
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I feel restless, and something seems to weigh me down.
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There is in, us a lack of the synthetic faculty which distinguishes things that are important from those that are not.
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As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.
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How utterly unprofitable my life is! These continual searchings of my mind are leading me into the desert.
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It is all my fault! But the blind man when he stumbles over a stone, curses the stone, not the blindness that made him stumble. 17
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But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.
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Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.
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There speaks again the sceptic; but I shall never be so intoxicated as to lose my capacity of observation.
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There was only one who understood me, and he understood me wrongly." Miss
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The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
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Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.
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Expectancy of anything is always oppressive. When
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I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.
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What dreadful misfortune awaited them among the savage hordes intoxicated with blood?
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Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.
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The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.
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Besides, my old opinions - at least, the greater part of them - are now in tatters, like a worn-out garment. But
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Aspasia and Xantippe in one. I
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It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.
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If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?
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It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball.
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There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.
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Own single law; Hei! be amazed, grow not enraged! thou in thy
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hatred is degenerated love,
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It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
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The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
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the ears of the prince. His guardianship over
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Ah me! what torture to have to deal with virtue, cold and merciless as the letter of the law!
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Walking along the avenues, we had one of the so-called intellectual conversations, which consist a great deal in quoting names of books and authors.
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On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.
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Our souls are full of Gothic arches, pinnacles, twisted traceries we cannot shake off, and of which Greek minds knew nothing.
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without noise of drums or
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Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.
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He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.
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Homesickness springs from the isolation of the soul from its surroundings.
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Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.
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Ground the coursing of flocks run wild.
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Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.
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A very poor man lives upon crumbs, and smiles gratefully - through tears. 6
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Youth is the one worthwhile treasure in this world, no matter how miserable the rest of life might be.
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England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.
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