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

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There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.

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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

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When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.

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For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live.

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All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.

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Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.

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