Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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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.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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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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