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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.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive, thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position.
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War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.
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Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.
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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
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To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.
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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
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A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away
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Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
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There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.
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