I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
LEO TOLSTOYWe can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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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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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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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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