Boredom: the desire for desires.
LEO TOLSTOYI’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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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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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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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