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.
LEO TOLSTOYLove alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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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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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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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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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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.
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