Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYBoredom: the desire for desires.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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’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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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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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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