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People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about these days, imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of these days and that human nature changes with the times.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.
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The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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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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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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Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.
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It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.
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