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Leo Tolstoy — Portrait after a picture by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

1828–1910

31 quotes, most often on Love, God and Morality.

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.
War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Book IV, Ch. 11
- Happiness
- Love
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878), Pt. I, ch. 1
- Family
- Happiness
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Anna Karenina (1878), Part One, Chapter 1In context
- Family
- Happiness
It showed him the mistake men make in picturing to themselves happiness as the realization of their desires.
Anna Karenina (1878), Part Five, Chapter 8In context
- Happiness

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