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.
LEO TOLSTOYHe 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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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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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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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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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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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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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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