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She wanted to be near her husband, and what would become of me was not taken into account.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz Without Dogma (1891)

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I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

Without Dogma (1891)

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

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Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

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Whoso loves beauty is unable for that very reason to love deformity. One may not believe in our gods, but it is possible to love them...

Quo Vadis (1895)

Pliny declares, as I hear, that he does not believe in the gods, but he believes in dreams; and perhaps he is right.

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