"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly."

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Source : Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Amy Mandelker (2010). “War and Peace”, p.355, Oxford University Press

Leo Tolstoy

#Life Quotes #Reality Quotes #World Quotes

“The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.”
“All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.”
“I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.”
“... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.”
“At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]”

Source : "The Art of Poetry (Canto III)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.
“One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wrong.”
“As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.”

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