My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
LEO TOLSTOYIt’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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