Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYMan cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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