This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know.
("Anna Karenina")
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Church teachings are but fiction. I have knowledge of their inanity.Leo Tolstoy
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
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What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.
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