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Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.
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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.
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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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Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.
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The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.
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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.
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What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.
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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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What am I coming for? he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. You know that I have come to be where you are, he said I can't help it.
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There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.
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If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
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Commit no act that is contrary to love.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
Leo Tolstoy
If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.
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Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.
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The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.
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I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.
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