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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom.
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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
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I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.
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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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And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.
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A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.
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Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.
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Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.
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In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.
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The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.
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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.
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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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Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me! thought Pierre. And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!
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Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.
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