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.
LEO TOLSTOYWhat a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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God is the same everywhere.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Love those you hate you.
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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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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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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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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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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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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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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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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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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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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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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