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 TOLSTOYWrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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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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