He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
LEO TOLSTOYRespect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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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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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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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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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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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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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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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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