Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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