When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYThere is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Faith is the force of life.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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