If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
("Anna Karenina")
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly
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But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?
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Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all methods, not excluding violence.
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