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Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.
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I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.
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He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.
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Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.
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The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
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From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
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Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one's suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering.
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The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.
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Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre
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Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing] the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.
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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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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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