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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.

Leo Tolstoy

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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Belong Bread Eat Life Pieces Share Starve
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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Capable Grief Heal Love Necessary People Serve Sorrow Strong
Kings are the slaves of history.
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History King One Liner Slave
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Doubt Principle Time
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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Desire Fear She Woman
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Depend Happiness Inspirational
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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Clothes Food Giving Man Shame Strave Unhappy
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Beauty Charm Diversity Life Light Shade
To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Enemy Love One Liner
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Beauty Goodness Illusion Strange Suppose
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Family Happiness Unhappy
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Complain Fate Life
The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Inspirational Key Life People Success Thinking Wise
Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Improvement Increase Life Person Positive Task
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Anniversary Couple Love Marriage Person
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Life Love Understand

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.

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