"Boredom: the desire for desires.
And where love ends, hate begins
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"We are shocked by thieves taking pride in their clever touch, prostitutes in their depravity and murderers in their callousness. But it is shocking on...
"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...
"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...
"The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.
"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
"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...
"To love life is to love God.
"If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
"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...
"To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.
"Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
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"-Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.