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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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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Love those you hate you.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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