We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOYIn the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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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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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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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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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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