Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOYPure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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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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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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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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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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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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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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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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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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Love those you hate you.
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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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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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