All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything intelligent is so boring.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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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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