I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.


Leo Tolstoy

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Perhaps you think I'm losing the thread of my thought? Not a bit of it! I'm still telling you the st...
LEO TOLSTOY
Se poate afla cu ușurință cât fier și ce metale se găsesc în soare și în stele,dar să sco�...
LEO TOLSTOY
As soon as a young man advances toward a woman, directly he falls under the influence of this opium,...
LEO TOLSTOY
Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That ...
LEO TOLSTOY
[...] la schiavitù non è altro che il profitto di pochi del lavoro della massa. Perché la schiavi...
LEO TOLSTOY
They abolish the external form, they suppress the formal sales of slaves, and then they imagine and ...
LEO TOLSTOY
Te miri cum frumuseţea ne dă iluzia deplină a binelui. Când o femeie frumoasă îndrugă prostii...
LEO TOLSTOY
«But you are talking of physical love. Do you not admit a love based upon a conformity of ideals, o...
LEO TOLSTOY
Music makes me forget myself, my real position; it transports me to some other position not my own. ...
LEO TOLSTOY
Este incredibil cât de completă este iluzia care ne face să credem că frumuseţea este în gener...
LEO TOLSTOY
I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wi...
LEO TOLSTOY
Another's wife is a white swan, and ours is bitter wormwood.
LEO TOLSTOY
Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last yo...
LEO TOLSTOY
I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in o...
LEO TOLSTOY
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense,...
LEO TOLSTOY
Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under th...
LEO TOLSTOY
Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mat...
LEO TOLSTOY
Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inn...
LEO TOLSTOY
While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything.
LEO TOLSTOY
Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentime...
LEO TOLSTOY
You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by...
LEO TOLSTOY
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
LEO TOLSTOY
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
LEO TOLSTOY
In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's comp...
LEO TOLSTOY
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordina...
LEO TOLSTOY
The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l...
LEO TOLSTOY
Spring is the time of plans and projects.
LEO TOLSTOY
He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing t...
LEO TOLSTOY
If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by...
LEO TOLSTOY
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one ...
LEO TOLSTOY
I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's...
LEO TOLSTOY
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
LEO TOLSTOY
Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was...
LEO TOLSTOY
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had...
LEO TOLSTOY
In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubbl...
LEO TOLSTOY
Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was ...
LEO TOLSTOY
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love...
LEO TOLSTOY
He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happines...
LEO TOLSTOY
One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
LEO TOLSTOY
The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.
LEO TOLSTOY