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"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

"Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live."

"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."

"And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living."

"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself."

"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love."

"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken."

"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."

"We lost because we told ourselves we lost."

"Boredom: the desire for desires."

"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

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

"Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised."

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