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.
LEO TOLSTOYHuman science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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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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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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God is the same everywhere.
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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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