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Boredom: the desire for desires.

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Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and w...more

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Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and sham...more

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It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people an...more

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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

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If a man decides that it is better for him to resist the demands of a present feeble love, in the name of another, of a future manifestation, he decei...more

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To love life is to love God.

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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

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Only one thing is necessary: we should all have a pure heart, with no anger, hatred, irritation, or hostility in it. If you feel hostility toward anot...more

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

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Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.

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-Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

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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...more

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Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life.

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When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.