My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
LEO TOLSTOYMy piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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God is the same everywhere.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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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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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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