Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
LEO TOLSTOYDebates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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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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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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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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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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