To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYWhatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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