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.
LEO TOLSTOYArt lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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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