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

Leo Tolstoy

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Deaf History People
God is the same everywhere.
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God One Liner Same
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Complete Impossible Joy Pure Sorrow
If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Love Peace Whisper
I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Cause Evil Live Myself Positive Want
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Feeling Love Possible Share
A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Battle Solution Win
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Complain Fate Life
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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Belong Bread Eat Life Pieces Share Starve
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Afraid Fear Love Soul
One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Cunning One Liner Wicked World
The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Business Entrepreneur Goodness Story Success
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
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Emotion Music One Liner
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Degree Human Knowledge Wisdom
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Intellectual Life Live Understand
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
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
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Greatness Journey Literature Man Story Strange Town
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
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
Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Improvement Increase Life Person Positive Task
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
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Admit Destroy Human Life Possible Reason Rule
Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Alive Bury Dead Happiness Inspirational Live
Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Growth Help Life Spiritual
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

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