I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYWhich is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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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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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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