Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
LEO TOLSTOYI simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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