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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement art is great matter.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.
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The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.
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He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. Where is it? What death? There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.
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Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.
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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.
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When you say, 'I can’t do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldn’t do that before.'
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I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'
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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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I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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