Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
LEO TOLSTOYIt is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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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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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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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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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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