Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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God is the same everywhere.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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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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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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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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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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Faith is the force of life.
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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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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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