Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
LEO TOLSTOYLet the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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