Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
LEO TOLSTOYIf we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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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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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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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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