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 TOLSTOYI’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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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