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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
    tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you want to be happy, be.”
    ― Leo Tolstory
    tags: inspirational
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: honesty, independent-thought
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “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.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие
    tags: books, conduct-of-life, contentment, country, happiness, life, music, nature, neighborliness, rest, usefulness, work
    1970 likes

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  • #8
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, respect
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Boredom: the desire for desires.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: truth
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: soul, souls
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “To get rid of an enemy one must love him. ”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: compatibility
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: goodness, simplicity, truth
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
    tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong
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  • #16
    Leo Tolstoy
    “It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, woman
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  • #17
    Leo Tolstoy
    “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.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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  • #18
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: historians
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  • #19
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: danger, good, love, wild, win, yes
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “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”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenin
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “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. ”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: death, inspirational
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: evil, live
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  • #23
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: leo-tolstoy
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  • #24
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everything depends on upbringing. ”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: parenting, upbringing
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  • #25
    Leo Tolstoy
    “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.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: marriage
    239 likes

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  • #28
    Leo Tolstoy
    “When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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  • #29
    Leo Tolstoy
    “One must be cunning and wicked in this world.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: cunning, wicked, world
    174 likes

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  • #30
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: joy, sorrow
    228 likes



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