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.
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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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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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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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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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 are asleep until we fall in Love!
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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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