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#1

“All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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#2

“I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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#3

“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...”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: love, world

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#4

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

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#5

“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.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: grief, inspirational

2849 likes

#6

“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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#7

“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

3562 likes

#8

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: men-women

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#9

“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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#10

“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. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#11

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: perfection

5744 likes

#12

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: war

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#13

“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

1968 likes

#14

“Boredom: the desire for desires.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: truth

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#15

“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.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: happiness, life

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#16

“To get rid of an enemy one must love him. ”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#17

“Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#18

“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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#19

“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

tags: closeness, love, soul-mate

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#20

“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: on-writing, storytelling

971 likes

#21

“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: inspirational, love

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#22

“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
― leo tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: life, reason

541 likes

#23

“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: love, woman

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#24

“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.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: being-loved, happiness, inspirational, philosophy

497 likes

#25

“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: historians

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#26

“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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#27

“God is the same everywhere.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: god

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#28

“I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: leo-tolstoy

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#29

“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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#30

“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: love

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