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 TOLSTOYOne must be cunning and wicked in this world.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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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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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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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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God is the same everywhere.
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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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