Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
LEO TOLSTOYHistorians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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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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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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