There are such repulsive faces in the world.
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.
“The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...”
“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
“Everything I know, I know because of love.”
“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.”
“There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.”
“To be of value to humanity, start by thinking for yourself.”
“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.”
“The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and intelligent man, he soon ...”
“Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural wish to make them sinless a...”
“Lie down beside these watersThat bubble from the spring;Hear in the desert silenceThe desert sparrow sing;Draw from the shapeless momentSuch pattern as you can;And cleave henceforth to Beauty;Expec...”
“The motives of mankind are plainer than the motions they produce.”