All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
LEO TOLSTOYLove alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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It’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.
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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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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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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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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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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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