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Alexander Herzen

"No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying."

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"No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying."

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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

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"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."

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"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

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"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."

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"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

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"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

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"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."

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"What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!"
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"Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live."
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"Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it."
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"Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood."
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"Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men."
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"We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation."
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"I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought."
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"Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development."
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"Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it."
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