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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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There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'
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The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.
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It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.
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Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.
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Happiness is pleasure without regret
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Vengeance is mine I will repay.
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These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.
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To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.
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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.
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God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.
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To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
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Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?
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The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.
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Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
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In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.
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And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself he went on living.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.
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Music is love in search of a voice.
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