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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Giving Increase People Poverty
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Cover Empty Invention Love Place Respect
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
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Deaf History People
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Beauty Charm Diversity Life Light Shade
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
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
I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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Anniversary Couple I Love You Love Person Valentine
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Art Life Man Personal Success Universal
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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Calm Chance Course Danger Excitement Existence Movement Myself Sacrifice Want
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
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
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Come Inspirational Patience Time Wait
The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Discover Law Love Reason
It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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Eternal Judgement Mistake People Right Wrong
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Family Happiness Unhappy
Love those you hate you.
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Hate Love One Liner
I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Cause Evil Live Myself Positive Want
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
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Activity Alone Human Love Mankind Pursuit Reason
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
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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Capable Grief Heal Love Necessary People Serve Sorrow Strong
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Anniversary Couple Love Marriage Person
Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Bad Honesty Liar
If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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God Happiness People Please Want
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Cease God Look Moments Name Work

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