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.
LEO TOLSTOYTo get rid of an enemy one must love him.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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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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Only 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.
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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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Sometimes 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.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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