Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
LEO TOLSTOYPure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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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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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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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God is the same everywhere.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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