Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOYThe Kingdom of God is Within You.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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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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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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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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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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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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