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3eb8eb9
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Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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ede1585
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...
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Leo Tolstoy |
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305519e
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You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.
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freedom
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Leo Tolstoy |
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f47a5f9
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To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
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education
schools
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Leo Tolstoy |
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5c5e3ee
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And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.
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stupidity
tolstoy
dishonesty
trickery
intellect
pride
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Leo Tolstoy |
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bd1ff2b
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All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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003bff0
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Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediate..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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e5a6bbc
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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aded9e4
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What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it."
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Leo Tolstoy |
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99b663a
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Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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9104ec6
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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
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laws
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Leo Tolstoy |
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09be7a7
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There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before...
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Leo Tolstoy |
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df03e03
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All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.
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pierre
war-and-peace
russia
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Leo Tolstoy |
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1670347
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There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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74c0279
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Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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ed794dd
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What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.
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humanity
sociology
power
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Leo Tolstoy |
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c3e1ff9
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she smiled at him, and at her own fears.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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4d03326
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The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.
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art
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Leo Tolstoy |
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8df6753
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And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.
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tragedy
platonic-love
platonic
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Leo Tolstoy |
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e46452b
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In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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e5f8c91
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everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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4bf352f
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I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky"
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Leo Tolstoy |
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10420a2
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Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie. What did days, weeks, or hours matter?
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Leo Tolstoy |
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9625d1c
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We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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5ad1180
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He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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fcf029d
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Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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32e5cf3
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Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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7c03a81
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Teach French and unteach sincerity.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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9c40823
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The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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c31b522
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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
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goodness
religion
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Leo Tolstoy |
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3366472
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Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one's suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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1149639
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One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way -- said to be kind, wicked, stupid, energetic, apathetic, and so on. People are not like that. We may say of a man that he is more often kind than cruel, more often wise than stupid, more often energetic than apathetic or vice versa; but it could never be true to say of one man that he is kind or wise, and of another that he ..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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01c039a
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Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at your side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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eff1749
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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b4e16c7
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There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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dc7560a
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But one thing I beg of you, look on me as your friend; and if you want some help, advice, or simply want to open your heart to someone- not now, but when things are clearer in your heart- think of me.' He took her hand and kissed it. 'I shall be happy, if I am able...' Pierre was confused. 'Don't speak to me like that; I'm not worth it!' cried Natasha... 'Hush, hush your whole life lies before you,' he said to her. 'Before me! No! All is ov..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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45c1d64
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When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!
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Leo Tolstoy |
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1ad7e2e
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He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly
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Leo Tolstoy |
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2061576
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I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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628f5b8
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There are as many kinds of love, as there are hearts
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Leo Tolstoy |
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9e19cbf
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Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause.... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordai..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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1b4d9d0
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the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982"
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read
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Leo Tolstoy |
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a6828b3
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Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do (...) Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them?..
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music
illusions
psychology
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Leo Tolstoy |
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bd4af15
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There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.
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life
oblivious
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