Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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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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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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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God is the same everywhere.
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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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