He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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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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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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Faith is the force of life.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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God is the same everywhere.
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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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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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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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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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