Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
LEO TOLSTOYIt’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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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 get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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