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To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.
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Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.
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But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?
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I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.
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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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I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
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The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.
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If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!
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To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.
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Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.
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I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.
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You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.
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