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Leo Tolstoy quotes

Russian Novelist September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910

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In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "God knows of love"
God knows of love Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love..."
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. Leo Tolstoy
Was it through reason that I arrived at the necessity of loving my neighbor and not throttling him?...Not reason. Reason discovered the struggle for existence and the law which demands that everyone who hinders the satisfaction of my desires should be throttled. That is the conclusion of reason. Reason could not discover love for the other, because it’s unreasonable. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to..."
One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love. Leo Tolstoy
I must ask what it is you want of me?"What can I want? All I can want is that you should not desert me, as you think of doing," she said, understanding all he had not uttered. "But that I don't want; that's secondary. I want love, and there is none. So then all is over. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without..."
I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife. Leo Tolstoy
Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these lofty ideals, love of culture, religion, they are only so many tools for getting on. Leo Tolstoy
If you could forget and forgive what happened."He snatched the chalk with nervous, trembling fingers, and breaking it, wrote the initial letters of the following phrase, "I have nothing to forget and to forgive; I have never ceased to love you. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "One can no more approach people without love than one can..."
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees... Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and..."
I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it. Leo Tolstoy
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. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "But you are talking of physical love. Do you not admit a love..."
But you are talking of physical love. Do you not admit a love based upon a conformity of ideals, on a spiritual affinity? Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for..."
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. 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

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