Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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