Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOYLove is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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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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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Love those you hate you.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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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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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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