I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
LEO TOLSTOYGreat achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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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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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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God is the same everywhere.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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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 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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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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