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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Leo Tolstoy

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Always Ignorance Noble Talk Thinking Understand
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
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
Kings are the slaves of history.
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History King One Liner Slave
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Complain Fate Life
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Goodness Greatness Minimalism Simplicity Truth
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
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
The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Discover Law Love Reason
Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Improvement Increase Life Person Positive Task
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Conviction Fight War
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Cease Conscience Majority Share Truth Wrong
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Art Life Man Personal Success Universal
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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Alone Eternal General God Love Retrurn Source United
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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Love Reason Understand
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Company Intelligence Man Women Young

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