When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYThe 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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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 two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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