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- The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed, she is so kind hearted that she can't look…
- Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the…
- Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.
- At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a…
- All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves…
- Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is…
- Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because…
- Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and…
- Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
- Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
- Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such…
- But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes,…
- A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to…
- By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich
- Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".
- We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's…
- So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you…
- Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and…
- A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And…
- All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
- These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never…
- But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels…
- One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in…
- I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which…
- He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was…
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