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Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.

The possibility of killing one’s self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one’s wife’s lover in one’s socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.

It’s not so much that he can’t fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ’s compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries – and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

Beautiful as seemed mama’s face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

There is trouble with a wife, but it’s even worse with a woman who is not a wife.

Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.

In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one, in me, in you, and in every man.

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one’s own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly – one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

I don’t think badly of people. I like everybody, and I’m sorry for everybody.

Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that “amusements” are not so amusing.

One may say with one’s lips: ‘I believe that God is one, and also three’ – but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men’s consciousness by the law of love.

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

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 at the blood, but enjoys serving the calf up with sauce.

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man’s life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There’s no girl who hasn’t gone through that. And it’s all so unimportant!

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things.

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