He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
LEO TOLSTOYIt’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Faith is the force of life.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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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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