It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYEvery 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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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Faith is the force of life.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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