Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
LEO TOLSTOYHe 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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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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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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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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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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