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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Leo Tolstoy

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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Happiness Interest Love Moments Reality World
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Feeling Love Possible Share
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Cease Conscience Majority Share Truth Wrong
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Beauty Goodness Illusion Strange Suppose
Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Life Live One Liner Positive Stop
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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Desire Fear She Woman
Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Growth Help Life Spiritual
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Emotion Music One Liner
The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Business Entrepreneur Goodness Story Success
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Complain Fate Life
It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Battle Die God Sleep Spare Willing
The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Discover Law Love Reason
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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Endurance Goals Himself Man Sleep Walk War
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Change Life Occur One Liner True
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Examine Fragment Human Kill Science Understand
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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Clothes Food Giving Man Shame Strave Unhappy

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