Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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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.
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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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Love those you hate you.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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