All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
LEO TOLSTOYLet the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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