Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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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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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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