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she smiled at him, and at her own fears.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
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He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.
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But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.
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Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.
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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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... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.
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One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.
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So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.
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Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.
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