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Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

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

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

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And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

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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.

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We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

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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.

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

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I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Novelist

Born: September 9th, 1828

Died: November 20th, 1910

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