All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOY
I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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