Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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