He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
LEO TOLSTOYAll great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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