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01c. 1869 AD

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

Leo Tolstoy / quote

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02c. 1869 AD

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

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03c. 1869 AD

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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04c. 1869 AD

If you want to be happy, be.

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05c. 1869 AD

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

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06c. 1869 AD

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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07c. 1869 AD

Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I.

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08c. 1869 AD

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt it in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.

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09c. 1869 AD

One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.''But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...''Life won't leave one alone as it is.

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10c. 1869 AD

...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

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11c. 1869 AD

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

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12c. 1869 AD

Boredom: the desire for desires.

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13c. 1869 AD

Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.

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14c. 1869 AD

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

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15c. 1869 AD

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

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16c. 1869 AD

And where love ends, hate begins

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17c. 1869 AD

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

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18c. 1869 AD

My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfilment of which I could consider reasonable. If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it. Had a fairy come and offered to fulfil my desires I should not have known what to ask. If in moments of intoxication I felt something which, though not a wish, was a habit left by former wishes, in sober moments I knew this to be a delusion and that there was really nothing to wish for. I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guess of what it consisted. The truth was that life is meaningless.

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19c. 1869 AD

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

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20c. 1869 AD

If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor.

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21c. 1869 AD

No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God.

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22c. 1869 AD

Este incredibil cât de completă este iluzia care ne face să credem că frumuseţea este în genere bunătate.

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23c. 1869 AD

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

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24c. 1869 AD

God is the same everywhere.

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