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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.
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I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.
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Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory
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When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death
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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
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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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Many people have ideas on how others should change few people have ideas on how they should change.
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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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Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
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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}
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When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.
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The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.
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Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.
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Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?
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There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.
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To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
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I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.
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Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.
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