Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
LEO TOLSTOYYou can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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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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