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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.
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When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time
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In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.
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He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.
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I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.
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the same question arose in every soul: For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?... p982
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No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit
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it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
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Life is fragile and absurd.
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The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.
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I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.
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What am I coming for? he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. You know that I have come to be where you are, he said I can't help it.
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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.
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Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.
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Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.
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If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.
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excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous
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