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> [“Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/yet-that-grief-and-this-joy-were-alike-outside-all-the-ordinary/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

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> [“The deepest shade of twilight did not send him from his favourite plane-tree. He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-radcliffe/the-deepest-shade-of-twilight-did-not-send-him-from-his-favourite/)

[Ann Radcliffe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-radcliffe/)

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> [“Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics is not enough, nor is love, nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldous-huxley/science-is-not-enough-religion-is-not-enough-art-is-not-enough/)

[Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldous-huxley/)

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> [“All he knew and felt was that what was happening was what had happened nearly a year before in the hotel of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/all-he-knew-and-felt-was-that-what-was-happening-was-what-had/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

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> [He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-radcliffe/he-loved-the-soothing-hour-when-the-last-tints-of-light-die-away-when/)

[Ann Radcliffe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-radcliffe/)

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> [But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/but-that-had-been-grief-this-was-joy-yet-that-grief-and-this-joy-were/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

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