It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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