Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
LEO TOLSTOYAll great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Faith is the force of life.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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God is the same everywhere.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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