Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOYA 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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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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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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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