I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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