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He felt that now over his every word, his every deed, there was a judge, a judgment, which was dearer to him than the judgments of all the people in the world. He spoke now, and along with his words he considered the impression his words would make on Natasha. He did not deliberately say what would be please her, but whatever he said, he judged himself from her point of view.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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18b4bdc
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Este incredibil cat de completa este iluzia care ne face sa credem ca frumusetea este in genere bunatate.
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life
truth
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Leo Tolstoy |
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aebd31a
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I must ask what it is you want of me?" "What can I want? All I can want is that you should not desert me, as you think of doing," she said, understanding all he had not uttered. "But that I don't want; that's secondary. I want love, and there is none. So then all is over." --
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Leo Tolstoy |
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8cc5e2b
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Constant idleness should be included in the tortures of hell, but it is, on the contrary, considered to be one of the joys of paradise.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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44e814e
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Come, what did I say, repeat it? he would ask. But I could never repeat anything, so ludicrous it seemed that he should talk to me, not of himself or me, but of something else, as though it mattered what happened outside us. Only much later I began to have some slight understanding of his cares and to be interested in them.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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c6b2804
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Now every time he turned to her, he bent his head, as though he would have fallen at her feet, and in his eyes there was nothing but humble submission and dread. 'I would not offend you' his eyes seemed every time to be saying, 'but I want to save myself, and I don't know how.
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romance
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Leo Tolstoy |
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885ea6e
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But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then--all the combinations made--they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.
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writing
inspiration
life
drawing
perception
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Leo Tolstoy |
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6754257
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And indeed, if Evgeny Irtenev was mentally ill, then all people are just as mentally ill, and the most mentally ill are undoubtably those who see signs of madness in others that they do not see in themselves.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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fc107f5
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For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days?" said the ambassador's wife. "What's to be done? It's a foolish old fashion that's kept up still," said Vronsky."
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Leo Tolstoy |
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d40fdcc
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If a man lives, then he believes in something. If he didn't believe that one must live for something, then he wouldn't live. If he doesn't see and doesn't understand the illusoriness of the finite, he believes in the infinite; if he does understand the illusoriness of the finite, he must believe in the infinite without which one cannot live.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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550c141
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as long as there is life, there is still happiness
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Leo Tolstoy |
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f6dba79
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There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and still less speak about it, but must only attend to one's own work. And he did his work, giving his whole strength to the task.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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a326fc8
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When she heard this Sonya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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399efcf
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We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them
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Leo Tolstoy |
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8580b5b
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They talked about peace, but did not believe in its possibility.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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4925942
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But what is ? What is ? The words and do not denote any really existing thing and therefore cannot be defined. Those words only denote a certain stage of understanding of phenomena. I do not know why a certain event occurs; I think that I cannot know it; so I do not try to know it and I talk about . I see a force producing effects beyond the scope of ordinary human agencies; I do not understand why this occurs and I talk of . To a h..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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c759b28
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Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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248de80
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Her glance, the touch of her hand, set him aflame. He kissed the palm of his hand where she had touched it, and went home, happy in the sense that he had got nearer to the attainment of his aims that evening...
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Leo Tolstoy |
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5dfa137
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Was it through reason that I arrived at the necessity of loving my neighbor and not throttling him?...Not reason. Reason discovered the struggle for existence and the law which demands that everyone who hinders the satisfaction of my desires should be throttled. That is the conclusion of reason. Reason could not discover love for the other, because it's unreasonable.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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6b3e43f
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Oh no, Papa, Kitty objected warmly. Varenka adores her. And besides, she does so much good! Ask anyone you like! Everybody knows her and Aline Stah. Perhaps, he said, pressing her arm with his elbow. But it is better to do good so that, ask whom you will, no one knows anything about it.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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a3f05fe
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I do not live my own life, there is something stronger than me which directs me. I suffer; but formerly I was dead and only now do I live.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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ee6b357
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We are conscious of the force of man's life, and we call it freedom
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Leo Tolstoy |
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102b04a
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It is said that one swallow does not make a summer, but can it be that because one swallow does not make a summer another swallow, sensing and anticipating summer, must not fly? If every blade of grass waited similarly summer would never occur. And it is the same with establishing the Kingdom of God: we must not think about whether we are the first or the thousandth swallow.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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d45cdaa
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No, it's all the same to me," said Levin, unable to suppress a smile."
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Leo Tolstoy |
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adbf9e4
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And then all at once love turns up, and you're done for, done for.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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5a8110e
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There are two aspects," Alexey Alexandrovitch resumed: "those who take part and those who look on; and love for such spectacles is an unmistakable proof of a low degree of development in the spectator, I admit, but . . ."
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Leo Tolstoy |
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56f7d48
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Imagine a problem in psychology: to find a way of getting people in our day and age - Christians, humanitarians, nice, kind people - to commit the most heinous crimes without feeling any guilt. There is only one solution - doing just what we do now: you make them governors, superintendents, officers or policemen, a process which, first of all, presupposes acceptance of something that goes by the name of government service and allows people ..
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people
philosophy
law
society
resurrection
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Leo Tolstoy |
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b721f9a
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But the princess had never seen the beautiful expression of her eyes; the expression that came into them when she was not thinking of herself. As is the case with everyone, her face assumed an affected, unnatural, ugly expression as soon as she looked in the looking glass.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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ed1200c
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You conquer me.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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f2b789f
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Levin was almost of the same age as Oblonsky; their intimacy did not rest merely on champagne. Levin had been the friend and companion of his early youth. They were fond of one another in spite of the difference of their characters and tastes, as friends are fond of one another who have been together in early youth. But in spite of this, each of them--as is often the way with men who have selected careers of different kinds--though in discu..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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81beff3
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The rivalry of the European states in constantly increasing their forces has reduced them to the necessity of having recourse to universal military service, since by that means the greatest possible number of soldiers is obtained at the least possible expense. Germany first hit on this device. And directly one state adopted it the others were obliged to do the same. And by this means all citizens are under arms to support the iniquities pra..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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135fa24
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There was no deceiving himself: something terrible, new, and more important than anything before in his life, was taking place within him of which he alone was aware.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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95c8b2f
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Prevention is better than cure,
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Leo Tolstoy |
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b165343
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Universal military service may be compared to the efforts of a man to prop up his falling house who so surrounds it and fills it with props and buttresses and planks and scaffolding that he manages to keep the house standing only by making it impossible to live in it.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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822b653
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he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.
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politicians
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Leo Tolstoy |
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741867b
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But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was ambitious, Alexander firm, English policy crafty, and the Duke of Oldenburg hardly treated. We cannot grasp the connections between these circumstances and the bare fact of murder and violence, nor why the duke's wrongs should induce thousands of men from the other side of Europe to pillage an..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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e5c1007
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But you are talking of physical love. Do you not admit a love based upon a conformity of ideals, on a spiritual affinity?>> <>
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Leo Tolstoy |
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f8e7110
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but most of all he liked to listen to stories of real life. He smiled gleefully as he listened to such stories, putting in words and asking questions, all aiming at bringing out clearly the moral beauty of the action of which he was told. Attachments, friendships, love, as Pierre understood them, Karataev had none, but he loved and lived on affectionate terms with every creature with whom he was thrown in life, and especially so with man- n..
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joy
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Leo Tolstoy |
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92ea20f
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In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. A living man knows himself not otherwise than as wanting, that is, he is conscious of his will. And his will, which constitutes the essence of his life, man is conscious of and cannot be conscious of otherwise than as free.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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172d93f
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Oh, how happy I am to have found it at last. Yes! It's all vanity, it's all an illusion, everything except that infinite sky.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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809a30c
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My brother's death: wise, good, serious, he fell ill while still a young man, suffered for more than a year, and died painfully, not understanding why he had lived and still less why he had to die. No theories could give me, or him, any reply to these questions during his slow and painful dying.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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7562a4e
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I cannot think of those years without horror, loathing and heartache. I killed men in war and challenged men to duels in order to kill them. I lost at cards, consumed the labour of the peasants, sentenced them to punishments, lived loosely, and deceived people. Lying, robbery, adultery of all kinds, drunkenness, violence, murder--there was no crime I did not commit, and in spite of that people praised my conduct and my contemporaries consid..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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917aa97
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The shore was God, the stream was tradition, and the oars were the free will given to me to make it to the shore where I would be joined with God. Thus the force of life was renewed within me, and I began to live once again.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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2748a4c
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Esli dobro imeet prichinu, ono uzhe ne dobro; esli ono imeet posledstvie -- nagradu, ono tozhe ne dobro. Stado byt', dobro vne tsepi prichin i sledstvii.
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Leo Tolstoy |