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I have discovered nothing new I have only perceived what I already knew.
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 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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There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.
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Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.
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The compassionate are not rich therefore, the rich are not compassionate.
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