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 TOLSTOYWithout this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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God is the same everywhere.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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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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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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