In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
LEO TOLSTOYThe only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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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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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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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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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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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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