What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYEvery heart has its own skeletons.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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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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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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