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He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.
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Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.
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He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love.
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It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.
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When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
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It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.
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What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie, what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die—and everything will end. You will die and learn everything—or stop asking.
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And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.
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People continued — regardless of all that leads man forward — to try to unite the incompatibles : the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another.
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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. -Dolly
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In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
September 9, 1828
Died:
November 20, 1910
(aged 82)
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