I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
LEO TOLSTOY
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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