To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYAll great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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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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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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