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.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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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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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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