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.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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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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