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"They say, the sun brings life to the world. The sun will rise and look is it not a corpse? Everything is dead and there are corpses everywhere. Just people and around them silence__that is the world! "Love one another"__who said that? Whose command is that? The pendulum swings unfeelingly, antagonistically. It's two o'clock at night. Her slippers are standing by her bed, as if waiting for her.... No, seriously, when they take her away tomorrow, what shall I do?"
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"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"
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"Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then-our friends are not able to finish their stories."
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"After you die, a rare friend or family member may carry your memory throughout life. Most will forget you. As if you were never here."
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"Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?"
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"One can not come back from life."
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"Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters."
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"A man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up one's watch, since together with the man, the whole world is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny."
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"Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to be snatched from us! And no sooner is the danger past than we resume once more the same dull life in which none of those delights existed for us."
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"Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither."
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"But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred."
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"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
Happiness

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
Beauty

"There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind."
Man

"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"
Power

"Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship."
Religion

"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."
Love

"Woe to the man who offends a small child!"
Justice

"The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles. Oh, they have no thought to spare for such details, their minds are concentrated on their grand invention as a whole, and fancy any one daring to pull them up for a trifle! But that's how they are caught."
Reality

"A wise man is not afraid to face the truth."
Wisdom

"And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course."
Regret
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