It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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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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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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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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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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