I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
LEO TOLSTOYIn the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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