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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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