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I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
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 whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.
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We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
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Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.
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He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.
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In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.
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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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There is no genius where there is not simplicity.
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I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
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It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.
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Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.
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Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.
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The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold
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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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Enough or not...it will have to do
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In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.
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Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If feelings bring people nearer to the religion's ideal... they are good if these estrange them from it, and oppose it, they are bad.
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Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
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I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
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