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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Read less, study less, but think more
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I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.
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ٰThe Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.
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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.
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It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
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In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.
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There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.
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Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: the gift of seeing what others have not seen.
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... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.
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The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.
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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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Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
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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 one who is happy, that's the one who is right.
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In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.
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