Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
LEO TOLSTOYTo tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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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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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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