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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

Leo Tolstoy

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Art Life Man Personal Success Universal
A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Feeling Love Possible Share
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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Desire Fear She Woman
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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Complete Knowledge Life Necessary Real Wisdom
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Beauty Charm Diversity Life Light Shade
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Deaf History People
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Cover Empty Invention Love Place Respect
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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Break Consolation Diamond Harm Lie Poison Safe Truth
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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Faith is the force of life.
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Faith Force Life One Liner
Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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Love Reason Understand
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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Always Ignorance Noble Talk Thinking Understand
It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Hard Love One Liner Woman

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

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