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Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.
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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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We're asleep until we love.
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People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.
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God knows, but He's waiting
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If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.
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And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.
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Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.
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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction.
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
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Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth
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Many people have ideas on how others should change few people have ideas on how they should change.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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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When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time
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Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.
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