Leo Tolstoy quotes - page 10

Love those you hate you. (Leo Tolstoy)
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul. View quote
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond. View quote
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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. View quote
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Everything I know, I know because of love. View quote
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not. View quote
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How can one be well... when one suffers morally? View quote
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Every heart has its own skeletons. View quote
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it. View quote
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. View quote
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God is the same everywhere. (Leo Tolstoy)
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time. View quote
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Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders? View quote
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There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes. View quote
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What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it. View quote
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To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools. View quote
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The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible. View quote
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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult. View quote
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she smiled at him, and at her own fears. View quote
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Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing? View quote
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Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn. (Leo Tolstoy)
There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness. View quote
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Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime. View quote
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One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love. View quote
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He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly. View quote
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