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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Leo Tolstoy

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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Couple Romantic Sun
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
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Conviction Fight War
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Art Life Man Personal Success Universal
Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Bore Intelligence One Liner
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Doubt Principle Time
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Family Happiness Unhappy
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Cry Deep Eat Hustle Motivational Wolf Worse
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
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’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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Clothes Food Giving Man Shame Strave Unhappy
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Capable Difficult People Rare Truth Young
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Beauty Goodness Illusion Strange Suppose
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Compatible Count Deal Happiness Marriage
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Chnage Himself Inspirational Thinking World
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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Gold Growth Obtain Truth Wash

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