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.
LEO TOLSTOYIs it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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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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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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