It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYOne must be cunning and wicked in this world.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Love those you hate you.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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