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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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lies
goodness
wisdom
delusion
self-deception
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Leo Tolstoy |
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I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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mind
individuality
heart
love
diversity
seduction
soul
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Leo Tolstoy |
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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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Leo Tolstoy |
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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respect
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Leo Tolstoy |
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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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wisdom
nothing
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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grief
inspirational
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Leo Tolstoy |
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If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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life
awareness
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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feelings
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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work
life
inspirational
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Leo Tolstoy |
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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor -- such is my idea of happiness.
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nature
work
music
happiness
life
neighborliness
usefulness
conduct-of-life
country
rest
contentment
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
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souls
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
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liar
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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wrong
truth
majority
right-and-wrong
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Leo Tolstoy |
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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." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}"
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Leo Tolstoy |
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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.
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love
tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy |
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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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Leo Tolstoy |
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The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.
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time
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Anything is better than lies and deceit!
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lying
lies
honesty
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Leo Tolstoy |
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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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. -Dolly
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Leo Tolstoy |
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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truth
simplicity
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Leo Tolstoy |
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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.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
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good
leo-tolstoy
deeds
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Leo Tolstoy |
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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.
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love
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Leo Tolstoy |
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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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world
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
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life
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Leo Tolstoy |
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But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?
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Leo Tolstoy |
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It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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wrong
right
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Leo Tolstoy |
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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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love
inspirational
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Leo Tolstoy |
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But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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It's hard to love a woman and do anything.
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woman
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Leo Tolstoy |
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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reason
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leo tolstoy |
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He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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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.
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men
noble
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Leo Tolstoy |
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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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happiness
philosophy
inspirational
being-loved
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Leo Tolstoy |
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Love those you hate you.
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hate
love
inspirational
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Leo Tolstoy |
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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live
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Leo Tolstoy |
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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.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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fear
love
levin
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Leo Tolstoy |