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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Family Happiness Unhappy
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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Break Consolation Diamond Harm Lie Poison Safe Truth
I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Cause Evil Live Myself Positive Want
Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Happiness One Liner Story Unhappy
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Conviction Fight War
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Beauty Goodness Illusion Strange Suppose
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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Beauty Charm Life Light Shadow Variety
Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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God Happiness Himself Rise Seek Surrender Temple Unhappy
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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Anniversary Couple I Love You Love Person Valentine
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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Divine Enemy Human Love Person
Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Conceal Debate Reveal Solitude Truth
Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Bore Intelligence One Liner
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Art Life Man Personal Success Universal
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
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Afraid Fear Love Soul
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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Couple Romantic Sun

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