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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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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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If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.
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Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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I have discovered nothing new I have only perceived what I already knew.
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They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
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