Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
LEO TOLSTOYIt’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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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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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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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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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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