Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOYHuman science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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