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“I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water - the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it.”
― The Brief History of the Dead
― The Brief History of the Dead
“Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. ”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! ”
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“It would be good," thought Prince Andrei, glancing at the little image that his sister had hung around his neck with such reverence and emotion, "It would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to Princess Marya . How good it would be to know where to seek help in this life, and what to expect after it, beyond the grave! How happy and at peace I should be if I could now say:" Lord have mercy on me!... But to whom should I say this? To some power--- indefinable and incomprehensible, to which I not only cannot appeal, but which I cannot express in words---The Great All or Nothing," he said to himself, "or to that God who has been sewn into this amulet by Marya? There is nothing certain, nothing except the nothingness of everything that is comprehensible to me, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but all important!”
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