If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
LEO TOLSTOYGrow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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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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God is the same everywhere.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Love those you hate you.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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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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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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