Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
LEO TOLSTOYLove alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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