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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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 error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men , but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.
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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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Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?
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Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.
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If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.
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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.
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Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and What men live by . When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.
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Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy
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For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
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But the peasants - how do the peasants die?
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One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.
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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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Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.
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