One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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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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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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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Love those you hate you.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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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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