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.
LEO TOLSTOYAll the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love those you hate you.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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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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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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