She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self

Leo Tolstoy

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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

Leo Tolstoy

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All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.

Leo Tolstoy

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I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Leo Tolstoy

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The difference between what he had been then and what he now was, was enormous...Then he was free and fearless...now he felt himself caught in the meshes of a stupid, empty, valueless, frivolous life...He remembered how proud he was at one time of his straightforwardness, how he had made a rule of always speaking the truth...and he was now sunk deep in lies...lies considered as truth by all who surrounded him.

Leo Tolstoy

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Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven

Leo Tolstoy

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إنك لن تستطيع أن تفهم ذلك، فأنتم أيها الرجال لكم الحرية في اختيار من تريدون، من الواضح لكم دائما من تحبون من الفتيات، ولكن الفتاة لا تستطيع أن تختار، كل ما تستطيعه أن تقول "نعم" أو "لا".

محمد العزب موسى

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