The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
LEO TOLSTOYBoredom: the desire for desires.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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