My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
LEO TOLSTOYI often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Only 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.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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