For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
("War and Peace")
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Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another.
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Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
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