Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
LEO TOLSTOYThe best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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God is the same everywhere.
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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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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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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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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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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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