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Leo Tolstoy quotes about love

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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
“And where love ends, hate begins.” 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
“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
“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
“Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.” 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
“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
“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
“I think... of so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.” 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
“When I was beginning to despair, and it seemed there would be no end—it's come! She loves me!” 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
“Love . . . Why I don't like the word is that it means too much to me, far more than you can understand” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Love those that hate you...” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“If you love me, as you say, . . . do so that I may be at peace.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“He wants to show me that his love for me is not to interfere with his freedom.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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