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.
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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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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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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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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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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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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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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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