All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
LEO TOLSTOYThe only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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