

“I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace

“He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace

“There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”
― American Gods
― American Gods

“It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace

“Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. ”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
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