If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
LEO TOLSTOYTruth, 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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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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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.
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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine 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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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