I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYBe bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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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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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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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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