Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYThe law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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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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Love those you hate you.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion 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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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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God is the same everywhere.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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