I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
LEO TOLSTOYAll the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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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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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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Love those you hate you.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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