Boredom: the desire for desires.
LEO TOLSTOYTo tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of 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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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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