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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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They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
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I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.
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Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .
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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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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
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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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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
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A holy spirit lives within you.
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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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