You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
LEO TOLSTOYThe whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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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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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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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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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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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Faith is the force of life.
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