Life did not stop, and one had to live.
LEO TOLSTOY
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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God is the same everywhere.
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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Faith is the force of 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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Love those you hate you.
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