All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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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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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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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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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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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