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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

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

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

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

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Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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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.

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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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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Novelist

Born: September 9th, 1828

Died: November 20th, 1910

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