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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Leo Tolstoy

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Cause Evil Live Myself Positive Want
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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Endurance Goals Himself Man Sleep Walk War
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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Gold Growth Obtain Truth Wash
Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Happiness Life Love Unhappy
The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Inspirational Key Life People Success Thinking Wise
Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Heart One Liner Skeleton
If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Love Peace Whisper
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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Head Heart Kind Love Mind True
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Beauty Goodness Illusion Strange Suppose
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Doubt Principle Time
It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Hard Love One Liner Woman
Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Book Happiness Ideas Music Nature Rest
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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Happiness Interest Love Moments Reality World
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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Break Consolation Diamond Harm Lie Poison Safe Truth
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Amazing Beauty Complete Delusion Goodness Wisdom
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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Always Ignorance Noble Talk Thinking Understand

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