Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
LEO TOLSTOYHe was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion 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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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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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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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