Great Quotes by Leo Tolstoy (200 Quotes)

If anything can destroy death, it is definitely love!

Sexual intercourse without spiritual love does not hurt: it is built on indifference.
You know, if you live the life of a person, it means you love him.
There are so many hearts for love in the world. Don't cry, it's better to look around.
Marriage is as irrevocable an act as death.
Our life becomes more joyful as soon as love appears in it.
You can be a genius, but still not understand anything about love.
Love is a feeling that consciousness enjoys!
The feeling of falling in love is incredibly pleasant. But true love is much stronger.
You need to decide on anything that can prove your devotion.
Not everyone is ready to waste away from love, even if the opportunity arises.
Love is difficult to express in words, because it is not about words at all.
Loving and admiring feelings are not the same thing.
They don’t love you because you are good. The one who loves you is just good...
The meaning of life is love. What could be different?
It is impossible to love everyone. Even if you love very much.
When we fall in love, we delve into someone else's soul, which is already work!
If a marriage does not illuminate love, it is fake!
The trouble with men is that they demand virtues from their wives, but they themselves do not even possess them.
In order for love to strengthen, it must free itself from all evils and vices.
We cannot love what we do not fully know.
If we were willing to change ourselves, love wouldn't be so traumatic.
Happiness comes to those who believe that it can come.
No matter how much you love, it always seems that there is a better love out there somewhere.

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Many people remember Tolstoy as a venerable old man, but let’s not forget that he was also young. Leo Tolstoy loved women very much. The passion that is natural for any man turned out to be an unbearable burden for the “mirror of the Russian revolution”, with which he struggled all his life...

...The thirst for family life and sensual attraction to a woman are the two main moods that hold the young Tolstoy in their power. ...The first step towards revealing this new side of life was for Tolstoy his changed attitude towards the maid:

“I experienced one strong feeling similar to love only when I was 13 or 14 years old, but I don’t want to believe that it was love; because the subject was a fat maid (admittedly, a very pretty face), and from 13 to 15 years of age - the most carefree time for a boy (adolescence) - you don’t know what to throw yourself at, and voluptuousness in this era acts with extraordinary force.”

L.N. Tolstoy kept his diary from a young age until the end of his life.

...When Tolstoy wrote “Resurrection,” ...Sofya Andreevna sharply attacked him for the chapter in which he described the seduction of Katyusha.

“You’re already an old man,” she said, “aren’t you ashamed to write such nasty things?”

...When she left, he, turning to M.A. Schmidt, who was also present, barely holding back the sobs that rose in his throat, said:

“Here she attacks me, and when my brothers brought me to the brothel for the first time and I committed this act, I then stood by this woman’s bed and cried!”

No women!

...Before leaving Kazan, the 19-year-old boy is already faced with the question of changing the direction of his entire life.

He falls ill (perhaps his disordered life was the cause of this illness), enters the clinic and here makes his first entry in his diary:

“It’s been six days since I entered the clinic, and it’s been six days since I’m almost satisfied with myself... The main benefit is that I clearly saw that a disordered life... is nothing more than a consequence of early depravity of the soul.” .

In this mood, he... leaves for Yasnaya Polyana... develops a “rule”:

“Look at the company of women as a necessary nuisance of social life and, as much as possible, move away from them.”

Young Tolstoy’s entire life is spent developing strict rules of behavior, spontaneously evading them, and stubbornly struggling with personal shortcomings.

“Yesterday went pretty well, accomplished almost everything; I’m dissatisfied with only one thing: I can’t overcome voluptuousness, especially since this passion has merged with habit.”

“Exercise every day. According to the law of religion, there are no women.”

... “Marya came to get her passport... Therefore, I will note voluptuousness.” “After dinner and the whole evening I wandered around and had voluptuous lusts.” “I am tormented by voluptuousness, not so much by voluptuousness as by the force of habit.”

About love

In Kazan, Tolstoy was attracted to Zinaida Modestovna Molostvova, a student of the Rodionovsky Institute of Noble Maidens. She was 21-22 years old, and she was almost the bride of another person. Despite this, she danced all the mazurkas with Lev Nikolaevich and was clearly interested in him.

The fact is that the Tolstoy family knew Mrs. Zagoskina, the head of this institute, well. In addition, Tolstoy’s sister Maria studied with Zinaida and was her friend. Therefore, Zinaida visited the Yushkovs, Tolstoy’s relatives, more than once, and there she met Leo Tolstoy.

Contemporaries said about her: “She was not one of the most beautiful, but she was distinguished by her prettiness and grace. She was smart and witty. Her observations of people were always imbued with humor, and at the same time she was kind, delicate by nature and always dreamy.”

At the age of 23, Tolstoy went to the Caucasus with his brother Nikolai and lived in Kazan for a week along the way. Then he meets Zinaida for the last time. He writes about this to his sister:

“Mrs. Zagoskina organized boat rides every day. Now in Zilantyevo, now in Switzerland, etc., where I often had the opportunity to meet Zinaida... so intoxicated by Zinaida.”

Later he mentions this in his diary:

“I lived in Kazan for a week. If they asked me why I lived in Kazan, what was pleasant for me? Why was I so happy? I wouldn't say it's because I'm in love. I did not know it. It seems to me that this ignorance is the main feature of love, it constitutes all its charm<…>. Do you remember the Bishop's Garden, Zinaida, the side path? Confession hung on my tongue, and so did you... My job was to start, but, you know, why, it seems to me, I didn’t say anything? “I was so happy that I had nothing to wish for.”

“...I didn’t say a word to her about love, but I’m so sure that she knows my feelings...”

These diary entries correspond to lines from the story “After the Ball”:

Ivan Vasilyevich, who, being already of great age, remembers “that without wine he was drunk with love” for Varenka B. and, just like Tolstoy himself, did not confess his feelings to her.

“We didn't say anything about love. I didn’t even ask her or myself whether she loved me. It was enough for me that I loved her.”

The most gratifying memories for Tolstoy were the memory of the Kazan period. But Tolstoy never decided to open up to Zinaida. The Caucasus left the most precious memories in Tolstoy... However... ...the same struggle of man with lower passions continues...

Nikolai and Leo Tolstoy. Photography from the 1850s

...In St. Petersburg in 1855, Lev Nikolaevich meets Alexandra Alekseevna Dyakova, the sister of his friend. Even in his youth, he was passionate about her... For three years now, Alexandra Alekseevna has been married to A.V. Obolensky, but when they meet, the feeling again captures Tolstoy.

“...I didn’t expect to see her, so the feeling she aroused in me was terribly strong...

...Then she accidentally walked me to the door. “Positively, since the time of Sonechka (Sofya Pavlovna Koloshina. Childhood love of L.N. Tolstoy) I have not had such a strong feeling.”

...Tolstoy did not forget Obolenskaya. And later, new meetings again worried him. On November 6, 1857, Tolstoy noted in his diary:

"A. lovely. Positively the woman who seduces me more than anyone else. I talked to her about marriage. Why didn’t I tell her everything?” "A. keeps me on a string, and I am grateful to her for that. However, in the evenings I am passionately in love with her and return home full of something, happiness or sadness, I don’t know.”

Attempt at marriage

On May 28, 1856, Lev Nikolaevich leaves for Yasnaya Polyana. In the village, he renews acquaintance with the Arsenyev family... Lev Nikolaevich sets himself an urgent task - marriage - and chooses Valeria Arsenyeva as his object.

The eldest daughter of the nobleman Arsenyev, twenty-year-old Valeria, seemed to him the long-awaited ideal. His meeting with Valeria Arsenyeva happened exactly a month after he first saw his future wife Sonya Bers...

10th of August. V. and I talked about marriage, she is not stupid and unusually kind.”

...During the months when Tolstoy saw Arsenyeva almost daily... he wrote down: “I rode on horseback for voluptuous purposes, but without success.” “I came across a pretty woman and was embarrassed.”

Valeria happily flirted with the young count and dreamed of marrying him, but they had very different ideas about family happiness. Tolstoy dreamed of how Valeria, in a simple poplin dress, would go around the huts and give help to the men. Valeria dreamed of how, in a dress with expensive lace, she would drive around in her own stroller along Nevsky Prospekt. When this difference was clarified, Lev Nikolaevich realized that Valeria Arsenyev was by no means the ideal he was looking for, and wrote her an almost insulting letter in which he stated:

“It seems to me that I was not born for family life, although I love it more than anything in the world.”

For a whole year, Tolstoy experienced a break with Valeria, the next summer he went to see her again, without experiencing any feelings: neither love, nor suffering. In his diary he wrote:

“My God, how old I am!.. I don’t want anything, but I’m ready to drag out the joyless burden of life as long as I can...” Sonya Bers, his betrothed, turned twelve that year.

After an unsuccessful attempt to get married, Tolstoy gives himself up to secular hobbies. “Tyutcheva, Sverbeeva, Shcherbatova, Chicherin, Olsufieva, Rebinder - I was in love with them all,” writes Lev Nikolaevich... To this list should be added... the Lvov sisters.

Tolstoy meets Princess Ekaterina Lvova in Dresden. “I really like her,” he writes in his diary, “and it seems that I’m a fool for not trying to marry her”... “I visited the Lvovs, and when I remember this visit, I howl. I decided that this was the last attempt at marriage, but even that was childish.”

A few months later he shares his experiences with A. A. Tolstoy:

“I was in the most comfortable mood to fall in love... Katerina Lvova is a beautiful, smart, honest and sweet person; I wanted with all my might to fall in love, I saw her a lot and nothing!.. What is this, for God’s sake? What kind of freak am I? Apparently I'm missing something..."

The young count was seriously infatuated with Princess Ekaterina Trubetskoy.

...In the diary we meet more new names, for example, the name of Princess Ekaterina Trubetskoy... ...Tolstoy’s attention lingers on Ekaterina Fedorovna Tyutcheva (the poet’s daughter) for several months.

"Jan. 7. Tyutchev's nonsense!

January 8. No, not nonsense. Slowly, but it grabs me seriously and that’s all...

January 26. He walked with ready love for Tyutcheva. Cold, shallow, aristocratic. Nonsense!"

Another six months later he writes to A.A. Tolstoy:

"TO. Tyutchev would be good if it weren’t for the bad dust and some kind of dryness and unappetizing in the mind and feeling... Sometimes I go to them and try on my 30-year-old calmness to the very thing that worried me before, and rejoice at my successes.”

Ekaterina Fedorovna Tyutcheva

The arrogance and aristocracy of Ekaterina Tyutcheva, the poet’s daughter, kept Lev Nikolaevich from proposing his hand...

In Clarens writes:

“I went on horseback. Spirits of hay, round fruit trees; in the trees, women and men are picking cherries and singing in Tyrolean, the sky is all incomplete, the azure is spilled everywhere. Lake Zug is blue. At home I admired the owner’s daughter, there was even something light, sweet memory of her when I returned to the room. She has a sweet face and smile, and she is smart, even a little reflective” (Diary, July 10, 1857).

A day later: “I went on foot, idiots. Nice people, humorously cretinically good-natured. Old lady with an umbrella. Girls. Two girls from Stanz were flirting, and one had wonderful eyes. I thought badly and was immediately punished by shyness. A nice church with an organ, full of pretty ones. An abyss of sociable and half-pretty... “.

A few months after returning from abroad, during the period of his secular hobbies, Tolstoy entered into a relationship with a married peasant woman, Aksinya. This connection continues for a long time and leaves a big mark on Tolstoy. After many years, it is reflected in “The Devil” - one of the most passionate works of art by Lev Nikolaevich. Individual diary entries give an idea of the nature of this connection.

“Wonderful Trinity Day. Withering bird cherry in gnarled working hands; the choking voice of Vasily Davydkin. I saw Aksinya briefly. Very good. All these days I waited in vain. Today in a big old forest. Daughter-in-law. I'm a fool, bastard. Red tan, eyes... I'm in love like never before in my life. There is no other thought. I'm suffering. All strength tomorrow"

She was impossibly far from his highly spiritual ideal, and Tolstoy considered his feelings for her - serious, heavy - to be unclean. Their relationship lasted three years. Aksinya was married, her husband worked as a driver and was rarely at home. Unusually pretty, seductive, cunning and crafty, Aksinya turned men’s heads, easily lured and deceived them. “Idyll”, “Tikhon and Malanya”, “The Devil” - all these works were written by Tolstoy under the impression of his feelings for Aksinya.

A year after that: “I remember A. only with disgust, about his shoulders.”

“I haven’t seen her. But yesterday... (Ellipsis in the original) I even feel scared, how close she is to me” (Diary. May 25, 1860). - “She’s nowhere to be found - I was looking for her. It is no longer the feeling of a deer, but of a husband for his wife. It’s strange, I’m trying to renew the former feeling of satiety and I can’t. Labor indifference, irresistible - this is what excites this feeling most of all.”

The last entry is very interesting. It indicates a great change that has occurred in Tolstoy's mood. Previously, the desire spread to many women whom he accidentally met, and, despite the persistent thought of a close, spiritually meaningful marriage, despite the sublime ideal of a future wife, it sometimes reached the point of physical pain.

Now the usual irresponsible relationship between the landowner and the peasant woman gradually reaches such strength that it begins to absorb all attention, concentrate all the power of passion on one object, without causing the previous indignation and protest of conscience.

Aksinya became pregnant around the time Lev Nikolaevich wooed Sonya Bers. A new ideal had already entered his life, but he was unable to break off relations with Aksinya.

It's too late to run

In August 1862, all the children of the Bers family went to visit their grandfather on his Ivitsy estate and stopped in Yasnaya Polyana along the way. And then 34-year-old Count Tolstoy suddenly saw in 18-year-old Sonya not a charming child, but a lovely girl... A girl who could excite feelings.

Sonya, Tanya and Lisa Bers. Late 1850s

There was a picnic in Zaseka on the lawn, when the naughty Sonya climbed onto a haystack and sang “The key flows over the pebbles.” And there were conversations in the twilight on the balcony, when Sonya was timid in front of Lev Nikolaevich, but he managed to get her to talk, and he listened to her with emotion, and at parting he enthusiastically said: “How clear and simple you are!”

When the Berses left for Ivitsy, Lev Nikolaevich endured only a few days apart from Sonya. He felt the need to see her again. He went to Ivitsy and there, at a ball, he admired Sonya again. She was wearing a barge dress with purple bows.

She was unusually graceful in dancing, and although Lev Nikolayevich told himself that Sonya was still a child, he later described these feelings in “War and Peace,” in the episode when Prince Andrei Bolkonsky dances with Natasha Rostova and falls in love with her.

“He embraced this thin, mobile, trembling figure, and she moved so close to him and smiled so close to him, the wine of her charm went to his head.”

Outwardly, Natasha was modeled after Sonya Bers: thin, large-mouthed, ugly, but completely irresistible in the radiance of her youth.

Nekhlyudov also felt innocent, sinless love “from the very first day he saw Katyusha” (novel “Sunday”). This love was of a “spiritual” person, it was in his soul, and he rejoiced at being in love...

“I am afraid of myself, what if this is a desire for love, and not love. I try to look only at its weaknesses, and yet this is it,” Tolstoy wrote in his diary.

When the Berses returned to Moscow, he followed them. Andrei Evstafievich and Lyubov Alexandrovna at first thought that Tolstoy was interested in their eldest daughter, Liza, and they gladly accepted him, hoping that he would soon woo him. And Lev Nikolaevich was tormented by endless doubts:

“Every day I think that we can’t suffer anymore and be happy together, and every day I get crazier.”

Finally, he decided that it was necessary to explain himself to Sonya. On September 17, Tolstoy came to her with a letter in which he asked Sonya to become his wife, and at the same time begged her to answer “no” at the slightest doubt. Sonya took the letter and went to her room. In the small living room, Tolstoy was in such a state of nervous tension that he did not even hear when the elder Bers addressed him.

Finally Sonya came down, approached him and said: “Of course, yes!” Only then did Lev Nikolaevich officially ask her parents for her hand in marriage.

... Lev Nikolaevich is already 34 years old, and Sofya Andreevna Bers is only 18 years old. He is ugly, “ugly,” she is “charming in every way.” The age difference torments him, and for minutes he thinks that personal happiness is inaccessible to him...

...After an explanation with Sofia Andreevna, Lev Nikolaevich insisted that the wedding would take place in a week... and the wedding was scheduled for September 23. ...At the last minute he wanted to run, but it was too late.

Now Tolstoy was absolutely happy: “Never have I imagined my future with my wife so joyfully, clearly and calmly.” But there was one more thing: before getting married, he wanted them to have no secrets from each other. Sonya had no secrets, her whole simple young soul was in front of him - in full view. But Lev Nikolaevich had them, and above all, a relationship with Aksinya. Tolstoy gave his diaries to the bride to read.

They had everything: gambling debts, drunken parties, a gypsy with whom her fiancé intended to live together, girls to whom he went with friends, the Yasnaya Polyana peasant woman Aksinya, with whom he spent summer nights, and, finally, the young lady Valeria Arsenyeva, with whom she had three I almost got married a year ago.

Sonya was terrified. She knew about this side of life only by hearsay. But she couldn’t even imagine that all this could be done by the person she loved and respected.

A conversation with her mother helped Sonya come to her senses: Lyubov Alexandrovna, although she was shocked by the prank of her future son-in-law, tried to explain to Sonya that all men of Lev Nikolaevich’s age have a past, it’s just that most grooms do not let their brides in on these details.

Sonya decided that she loved Lev Nikolaevich strongly enough to forgive him everything, including Aksinya. But then Tolstoy again began to doubt the correctness of the decision made, and on the very morning of the appointed wedding, September 23, he invited Sonya to think again: maybe she didn’t want this marriage after all?

Can’t she really, eighteen years old, tender, love him, “the old toothless fool”? And again Sonya cried. She walked down the aisle in the Kremlin Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in tears.

That evening the young couple left for Yasnaya Polyana. Tolstoy wrote in his diary: “Incredible happiness... It cannot be that this all ends only in life.”

Family life, however, did not start out smoothly. Sonya showed coldness and even disgust in intimate relationships, which, however, are quite understandable - she was still very young and brought up in the traditions of the 19th century, when mothers informed their daughters about the “marriage sacrament” before the wedding, and even then in allegorical expressions.

From her diary:

“...All his (husband’s) past is so terrible for me that I, it seems, will never make peace with him. ...He kisses me, and I think: “This is not the first time he’s been carried away.” I was also interested, but in imagination, and he was interested in women, lively, pretty...”

But Lev Nikolaevich was going crazy with passion for his young wife, and was angry with her for not receiving a response. Once, during his wedding night, he even had a hallucination: the count imagined that in his arms it was not Sonya, but a porcelain doll, and even the edge of his shirt was torn off. He told his wife about the vision - Sonya was scared. But she could not change her attitude towards the physical side of marriage.

“...The physical side of love plays a big role for him. It’s terrible - I have none, on the contrary.”

Tolstoy, of course, also felt something was wrong: “Night, heavy sleep. Not she". It is not surprising that the first quarrels occurred already during the honeymoon. The reconciliation was quick and passionate, but the idyllic picture disappeared forever.

“You know, Sonya,” Tolstoy once said, “it seems to me that a husband and wife are like two halves of a blank sheet of paper.” Quarrels are like cuts. Start cutting this leaf from the top and... soon the two halves will separate completely...

Sisters Sophia (left) and Tatyana Bers. 1861

In addition to the ghosts of the past that darkened Sofia Andreevna’s life, she was greatly tormented by a feeling of jealousy... towards all women.

...In the last years of his single life, Tolstoy had a long relationship with the Yasnaya Polyana married peasant woman Aksinya and, it seems, had a son from her...

From the diary: “I saw Aksinya briefly. Very good. ...I'm in love like never before in my life. There is no other thought. I'm suffering."

...Six months later: “I haven’t seen her. But yesterday... I’m even scared how close she is to me.” “She’s nowhere to be found—I looked for her. It’s no longer the feeling of a deer, but of a husband for his wife”...

A few months after the wedding, this woman, along with another peasant woman, was sent to the manor’s house to wash the floors. They showed it to Sofya Andreevna. Painful jealousy arose in Lev Nikolaevich’s wife...

On December 16, 1862 there is the following entry in S. A.’s diary:

“It seems to me that someday I will grab myself from jealousy. More in love than ever. And just a woman, fat, white - terrible. I looked at the dagger and guns with such pleasure. One hit - easy. I'm just like crazy...

...The writer’s family relationships were not easy. ...Tolstoy went beyond gender; he wanted to see only a person in his wife.

But... in his old age, fate again awakened in him the feelings of a husband for his wife, the relationship of a man to a woman. ...Lev Nikolaevich, a 70-year-old man, at times began to experience strong, joyful excitement from the presence of his wife.

I once visited Yasnaya Polyana. The museum was closed for a sanitary day. But one of the employees agreed to tell me something about Tolstoy. According to her, he plowed and mowed only for lonely young women and widows, and only for those who had daughters - for the first night with them! And in the village they hated him for it - half the children were like him. Is there at least some truth in this story?

Answers Pavel Basinsky, writer, author of books about L. Tolstoy, M. Gorky:

— Such stories are an absolute myth. Unfortunately, these bad legends have become quite common. The life of Lev Nikolayevich since he married Sofya Andreevna was all in sight, transparent - he was visited by many different people.

Not all visitors were his admirers, much less followers. And, probably, there would have been something “revelatory” left in their memoirs and letters. Conservative newspapers would certainly have burst out with similar denunciations if the writer had given them such a reason. But there is nothing like it!

Before his marriage, Tolstoy had a relationship with the Yasnaya Polyana peasant woman Aksinya Bazykina. Many, including Sofya Andreevna, knew that she had a son from Lev Nikolaevich. He was elected headman in the village, worked as a coachman for Tolstoy’s sons, and then became an alcoholic, as often happened with illegitimate children of landowners. But Tolstoy did not have any unknown, “shadow” personal life.

I am in favor of telling the whole truth about geniuses, but in this case there is no basis for such “truth”.

The material is compiled based on information from open sources. The material uses excerpts from the writer’s letters and diaries, memories of his friends and relatives.

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“Love is a priceless gift. This is the only thing we can give, and yet we will have it.” These words belong to Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

L.N. and S.A. Tolstoy on their 48th wedding anniversary on September 25, 1910.

You don’t need to think about love: it either exists or it doesn’t.

This great writer has many great sayings. Gain golden experience from Leo Tolstoy's quotes about love.

Any marriage can become fatally unhappy.
People who get married should be considered one.
The only reasonable reason for divorce is adultery by the wife or husband.
What could be worse than having to endure an evil wife?
You can only strive for an honest life in marriage.
You can’t be absolutely infallible if life is so complicated...
Being with an unloved woman means being a living corpse!
A person must have a goal, and the woman he loves must help him achieve it.
Love is a feeling that makes a person give up his animal personality.
Only rational existence can love be subordinated.
Love is impossible without suffering. This is true.
Everyone understands feelings in their own way. And there is probably no right answer.
When love leaves, a person feels empty, even if he suffered in the relationship!
Love is not even a preference. And something that succumbed to a random mood cannot be called love.
Even if you want a lot of good, a conflict of interests may arise within you...
A person always chooses what is more pleasant to him. This is how relationships are built.
Love is often confused with addiction. But in fact, this is the highest manifestation of fidelity.
A person must have an inner need for love. And only then does an object appear to satisfy it!
Love always requires investments, especially emotional ones.
What cannot be said for sure is whether another person is capable of love.
Help people in need more, and then you will know exactly what love is...
Each person is an individual with his own characteristics. And to build strong relationships, he undoubtedly needs the same personality!

Tolstoy's sayings about happiness

All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I don't have everything I love. But I love everything I have.

Happiness does not lie in always doing what you want, but in always wanting what you do.

One of the most amazing misconceptions is that a person’s happiness lies in doing nothing.

A person should always be happy, if happiness ends, look where you went wrong.

Happiness comes more willingly into a home where a good mood always reigns.

Children are the most insightful

Wise thoughts are undoubtedly useful in any area of life. However, what awakens romantic interest and the desire to learn something new at the same time are quotes from Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy about love.

A woman who knows how to remain silent where necessary is an invaluable wife.
In order to be able to love, you do not need to read books. You either know how to do it or you don't.
It is more difficult for an enlightened person to love, because he already knows about many pitfalls.
Love turns you crazy. Maybe not for long, but it transforms.
Mark in front of your door, and give less advice that no one asks you for.
Life has no meaning without love, although without it it would really be much easier!
When someone suffers because of you for a romantic reason, it is, you see, nice.
Falling in love and short memory are interconnected things.
It is very difficult to get rid of evil thoughts, but they can be removed...
I simply wish each friend to grow in love.
A person gets used to living in unloving conditions, especially if those around him do the same.
Everything starts small, just like love – with just a small spark.
The traveler at the end of the novel does not always end up with robbers, just like life should not end with novels.
Happiness is anything, but not the achievement of one single goal...
Love, like enemies, can be treated completely differently.
The most important rule of love is not to harm a person, unless, of course, you really love.
Our life becomes more useful as soon as love appears!
When you fall in love, you automatically begin to live the life of the one you love.
It is necessary to have a woman if you are truly a man.
Sometimes a seventeen-year-old boy has nothing but shyness, and there is no need to blame him for this.
Boredom in a relationship begins when passion mixes with habit.
Most likely, the girl knows about your feelings. She has, among other things, insight.

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