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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Leo Tolstoy

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
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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Compatible Count Deal Happiness Marriage
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
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
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Capable Difficult People Rare Truth Young
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Cover Empty Invention Love Place Respect
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Cease Conscience Majority Share Truth Wrong
To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Enemy Love One Liner
Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Heart One Liner Skeleton
Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Ability Happiness Love One Liner
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Intellectual Life Live Understand
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
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
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Family Happiness Unhappy
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
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Life Love Understand

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