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"Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom."
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"The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks."
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"Life can only be experienced."
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"Infinite and finite are both mental constructs."
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"But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable, fact does not."
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"Let living know they will die one day. They ought to live wisely."
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"You pays your money and you takes your choice."
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"Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real."
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"To live a fantasy is to avoid a life."
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"You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real."
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"Life is simply a collective thought. Didn't you know we made it all up? Don't you know it can be different?"
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"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
Art
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
Art
"We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening."
Growth
"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 do is look like each other: damasks, ebony, plants, rugs and bronzes, anything dark and gleaming-everything that all people of a certain class affect so as to be like all other people of a certain class. And his arrangements looked so much like everyone else's that they were unremarkable, though he saw them as something truly distinctive."
Society
"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person."
Character
"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
Truth
"God gave the day, God gave the strength."
Faith
"Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave."
Religion
"To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them."
War
"Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort ,is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away."
Life
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