Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO TOLSTOY
It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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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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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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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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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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