Faith is the force of life.
LEO TOLSTOYLife did not stop, and one had to live.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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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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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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