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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life
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Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and What men live by . When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.
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The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.
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The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.
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Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.
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And the cause of everything is that which we call God.
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At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?
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Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
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There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.
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One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.
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If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!
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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them then work which one hopes may be of some use then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
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ٰThe Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.
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For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
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Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.
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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
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In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.
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Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.
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I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
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