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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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To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
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Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If feelings bring people nearer to the religion's ideal... they are good if these estrange them from it, and oppose it, they are bad.
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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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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
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It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.
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There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.
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Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).
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No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Where there is love, there is God also.
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One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.
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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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When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, Do what you like now.
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Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.
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Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.
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Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?
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