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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...”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
War and Peace
“And where love ends, hate begins.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
War and Peace
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“All we can know is that we know nothing.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
War and Peace
“To educate the people three things are needed: schools, and schools, and schools.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already,...”
Leo Tolstoy
,
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“Anything's better than lying and deceit.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?”
Leo Tolstoy
,
War and Peace
“Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“And do you know, there's less charm in life, when one thinks of death, but there's more peace.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“The whole world is now for me divided into two halves: one half is she, and there all is joy, hope, light: the other half is everything where she is not, and there is all gloom and darkness...”
Leo Tolstoy
,
War and Peace
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“It is possible to love someone dear to you with human love, but an enemy can only be loved by divine love.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
War and Peace
“one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy”
Leo Tolstoy
,
War and Peace
“there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
War and Peace
“You say: I am not free. But I have lifted my hand and let it fall. Everyone understands that this illogical reply is an irrefutable demonstration of freedom.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
War and Peace
“I think... of so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“Every heart has its own skeletons”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“They haven't an idea of what happiness is; they don't know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness—no life at all”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“God is the same every where.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
War and Peace
“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?”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“Then she thought that life might still be happy, and how miserably she loved and hated him, and how fearfully her heart was beating.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“He was always in a hurry to speak, and seemed always to put his whole soul into what he was saying.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“When I was beginning to despair, and it seemed there would be no end—it's come! She loves me!”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“Some mathematician has said that enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in the finding it.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
War and Peace
“Aren't we all flung into the world only to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and each other?”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“He felt himself, and did not want to be any one else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“There was only one creature in the world that could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“I lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. And I have become calmer since I began to live only for myself.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
War and Peace
“We walked to meet each other up to the time of our love, and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions. And there's no altering that.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“The antagonism between life and the conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
“She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“If you love me, as you say, . . . do so that I may be at peace.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
War and Peace
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
War and Peace
“The only happy marriages I know are marriages of prudence.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“I see that I have begun to understand too much. And it doesn't do for man to taste of the tree of knowledge of good and evil…”
Leo Tolstoy
,
War and Peace
“God gave the day, God gave the strength. And the day and the strength were consecrated to labor, and that labor was its own reward.”
Leo Tolstoy
,
Anna Karenina
“When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!”
Leo Tolstoy
,
War and Peace
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