The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
LEO TOLSTOYIt’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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