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"One should never direct people towards happiness, becausehappiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should directthem towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its preycan be happy too, but only human beings can feel affectionfor each other, and this is the highest achievement they canaspire to."
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"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"
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"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."
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"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"
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"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."
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"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."
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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."
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"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness."
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"We have arrived at an intellectual chaos."
Chaos
"The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble."
Being
"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
Government
"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
Travel
"The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man."
Heart
"The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature."
Art
"For me and my friends, for people who think the way I do over there, for all ordinary Soviet citizens, America evokes a mixture of admiration and compassion...You're a country of the future, a young country, with yet untapped possiblities, enormous territory, great breadth of spirit, generosity, magnanimity. But these qualities-strength, generosity, and magnanimity-are usually combined in a man and even in a whole country with trustfulness. And this has already done you a disservice several times."
Society
"Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being."
Spiritual
"When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again."
Philosophy
"All Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises."
Politics
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