Leo Tolstoy quotes - page 4

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. (Leo Tolstoy)
He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it. View quote
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The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action. View quote
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The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. View quote
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The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth. View quote
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels? View quote
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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. View quote
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Anything is better than lies and deceit! View quote
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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. View quote
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Sometimes 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. View quote
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They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life. (Leo Tolstoy)
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. View quote
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But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. View quote
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I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it. View quote
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Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up. View quote
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. View quote
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Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget... View quote
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. View quote
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. View quote
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Everything depends on upbringing. View quote
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He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking. (Leo Tolstoy)
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that. View quote
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Life did not stop, and one had to live. View quote
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He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty. View quote
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I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor. View quote
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