He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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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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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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 get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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