All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
LEO TOLSTOYOne must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Faith is the force of life.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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