Music is the shorthand of emotion.
LEO TOLSTOYSometimes 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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God is the same everywhere.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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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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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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