He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
LEO TOLSTOYLove alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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Faith is the force of life.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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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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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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