Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
LEO TOLSTOYOnly people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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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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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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