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 TOLSTOYIs it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of 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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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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