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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.

Leo Tolstoy

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Goodness Greatness Minimalism Simplicity Truth
Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Bore Intelligence One Liner
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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Endurance Goals Himself Man Sleep Walk War
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Conviction Fight War
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
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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Calm Chance Course Danger Excitement Existence Movement Myself Sacrifice Want
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
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
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Cease God Look Moments Name Work
To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Enemy Love One Liner
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Complain Fate Life
In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Finding Hope Invisible Midst Summer Winter
One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Cunning One Liner Wicked World
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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Belong Death Fear Himself Inspirational Limitation Man Suffering
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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Darkness Divide Happiness Hope Light World
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Giving Increase People Poverty

Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.

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