Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
LEO TOLSTOYPure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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Faith is the force of life.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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