As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in his heart. To each of them it seemed that the life he led was the only real life, and the one his friend led was a mere illusion. Leo Tolstoy
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More Quotes By Leo Tolstoy
  1. I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

  2. Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

  3. Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

  4. I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

  5. They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

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