Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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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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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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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.
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God is the same everywhere.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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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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