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.
LEO TOLSTOYIf we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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God is the same everywhere.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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