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

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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
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one’s sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Bk. XIV, ch. 15
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
What Men Live By (1881), Ch. XII
- God
- Love
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
War and Peace (1869), Bk. XII, Ch. 16
- Life & Death
- Love
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Anna Karenina (1878), Part Seven, Chapter 24In context
- Love

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