Boredom: the desire for desires.
LEO TOLSTOYThe only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Faith is the force of life.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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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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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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