What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYDon’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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Faith is the force of life.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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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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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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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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