All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
LEO TOLSTOYNothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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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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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God is the same everywhere.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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Faith is the force of life.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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