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Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

Leonid Andreyev

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Leonid Andreyev
Age: 48 †
Born: 1871
Born: August 9
Died: 1919
Died: September 12
Journalist
Playwright
Poet
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Orel
Leonid N. Andreev
Leonid Andreev
Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev
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The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams and it was shining only for itself.
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Ah well, 'tis the way of the world -- births and deaths, births and deaths.
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It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!
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Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.
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The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.
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Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.
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Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.
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Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.
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Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.
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All perishes, all decays, all is born again.
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The only thing not worth destroying is science. That would be useless. Science is unchangeable, and if you destroyed it today, it would rise up again the same as before.
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I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man's reason, his emotions, his nerves, his whole animal nature. I should like my book to make people turn pale with horror as they read it, to affect them like a drug, like a terrifying dream, to drive them mad, to make them curse and hate me but still to read me.
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Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark.
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Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
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