Everything intelligent is so boring.
LEO TOLSTOYOnly 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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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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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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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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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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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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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Love those you hate you.
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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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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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