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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.

Leo Tolstoy

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Admit Destroy Human Life Possible Reason Rule
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Complete Impossible Joy Pure Sorrow
Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Bad Honesty Liar
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Activity Alone Human Love Mankind Pursuit Reason
Kings are the slaves of history.
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History King One Liner Slave
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
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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Divine Enemy Human Love Person
It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Battle Die God Sleep Spare Willing
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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Giving Increase People Poverty
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Deaf History People
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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Love Reason Understand
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Amazing Beauty Complete Delusion Goodness Wisdom
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Absolute Attain Knowledge Life Man
If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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Attitude Change Enjoyment Job Work
A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Battle Solution Win
Everything 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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Alone Eternal General God Love Retrurn Source United

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