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.
LEO TOLSTOYLove. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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