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.
LEO TOLSTOYHe 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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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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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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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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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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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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