Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything I know, I know because of love.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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