Leo Tolstoy

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Rusia · 1828 - 1910 · 304 kata bijak

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.

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Leo Tolstoy

Cinta

what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life?

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Leo Tolstoy

Waktu

What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?

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Leo Tolstoy

Keluarga

Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people.

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Leo Tolstoy

Perjuangan

He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a fairy realm like the earth. It was clearing, and over the tops of the trees clouds were swiftly sailing as if unveiling the stars.

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Leo Tolstoy

Kesabaran

everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.

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Kesabaran

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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Leo Tolstoy

Cinta

oh God! what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men's esteem?

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Leo Tolstoy

Seni

But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.

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Leo Tolstoy

Kehidupan

I assure you that I sleep anywhere, and always like a dormouse.

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Keluarga

It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and that that part of her soul would quickly be smothered in the life she was leading.

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Leo Tolstoy

Kebahagiaan

Happiness is pleasure without regret

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Leo Tolstoy

Cinta

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

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Leo Tolstoy

Kehidupan

If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.

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Leo Tolstoy

Harapan

During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old comforting and hopeless conclusion: that there was no need for him to start anything, that he had to live out his life without doing evil, without anxiety, and without wishing for anything.

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Nasihat

I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them -- that is, I wish to destroy that by which I live.

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Leo Tolstoy

Cinta

How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!

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Leo Tolstoy

Harapan

While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything.

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Leo Tolstoy

Cinta

One may deal with things without love...but you cannot deal with men without it...It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.

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Leo Tolstoy

Cinta

Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life.

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Leo Tolstoy

Seni

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

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