#leo tolstoy

“Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you ...

“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina...

“Everything I know, I know because of love.”  ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace...

Leo Tolstoy Edgar Allan Poe Kahlil Gibran Charles Baudelaire Rainer Maria Rilke Donna Tartt Fyodor Dostoevsky ...

Everything I know, I know because of love.

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He had said just what her soul desired but her reason dreaded.

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There were no other eyes in the world like them.

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It was not even a conversation but a kind of mystic intercourse, which every moment bound them closer and closer and created

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And what was the use of counting by years, when he felt as young at heart as he had been twenty years ago?

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To have those feelings awakened was painful, but she still knew that they were the best part of her soul, and that part of

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You speak of energy. Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there’s no forcing it.

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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

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Everything I know, I know because of love.

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Everything I know, I know because of love.

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But their eyes when they met spoke more fondly and kissed tenderly.

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It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

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It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

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Everything I know, I know because of love.

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It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

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Everything I know, I know because of love.

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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

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