Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYLife did not stop, and one had to live.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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