Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO TOLSTOYSometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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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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Faith is the force of life.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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