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History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.
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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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The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous.
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And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.
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Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?
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I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
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Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.
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Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?
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No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.
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I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.
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Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.
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Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.
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He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.
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The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity and if so, where it lies?
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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.
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Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.
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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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The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.
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The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.
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