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af170b0
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Although Vasili Andreevich felt quite warm in his two fur coats, especially after struggling in the snow drift, a cold shiver ran down his back on realizing that he must really spend the night where they were.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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True religion is that relationship, in accordance with reason and knowledge which man establishes with the infinite world around him, and which binds his life to that infinity and guides his actions.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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The main reason for the terrible cruelty between men today, apart from the absence religion, is still the refined complexity of life which shields people from the consequences of their actions. However cruel Attila, Genghis Khan and their followers may have been, the act of killing people personally, face to face, must have been unpleasant: the wailing relatives and the presence of the corpses. And thus their cruelty was restrained. Nowaday..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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He got up, wishing to go around, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox right over Helene, behind her back. Helene moved forward so as to make room and, smiling, glanced around. As always at soirees, she was wearing a gown in the fashion of the time, quite open in front and back. Her bust, which had always looked like marble to Pierre, was now such a short distance from him that he could involuntarily make out with his nearsighted eyes the li..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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cb4aeed
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Luxury cannot be obtained other than by enslaving other people.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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18ae8b3
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fakt smerti blizkogo znakomogo vyzval vo vsekh, uznavshikh pro nee, kak vsegda, chuvstvo radosti o tom, chto umer on, a ne ia.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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1f72dda
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I will still get angry at Ivan the coachman, I will still argue, I will express my thoughts ineptly, there will be a wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife; I will still blame her for my own terror and then repent of it, I will still not understand with my reason why I pray, and will go on praying - but my life now, my whole life, regardless of whatever may happen to me, each minute of it, is not only not ..
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levin
marian-schwartz
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Leo Tolstoy |
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b884f3b
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The animalism of the brute nature in man is disgusting', he thought, 'but as long as it remains in its naked form we observe it from the height of our spiritual life and despise it; and - whether one has fallen or resisted - one remains what one was before. But when that same animalism hides under a cloak of poetry and aesthetic feeling and demands our worship - then we are swallowed up by it completely and worship animalism, no longer dist..
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spirituality
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Leo Tolstoy |
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5bd1a91
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Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.
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science
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Leo Tolstoy |
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a38996a
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I have learned that men live not by selfishness, but by love.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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a2bd562
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Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back on that sadness of mine, seeing that always in it was an element of self-love - now a desire to show that I prayed more than any one else, now concern about the impression I was producing on others, now an aimless curiosity which caused me to observe Mimi's cap or the faces of those around me. I despised myself for not experiencing..
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unhappiness
grief
youth
sorrow
death
tolstoy
self-love
funeral
childhood
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Leo Tolstoy |
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56ef583
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There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.
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inspirational
human-naturei
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Leo Tolstoy |
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c249a89
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In the city the wretched feel less sad. One can live there a hundred years without being noticed, and be dead a long time before anybody will notice it.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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f42d21b
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Kitty looked into his face, which was so close to her own, and long afterwards--for several years after--that look, full of love, to which he made no response, cut her to the heart with an agony of shame.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov was carried back into that world of home and childhood which had no meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the greatest pleasure in his life.
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memory
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Leo Tolstoy |
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8ef908a
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It is better to know several basic rules of life than to study many unnecessary sciences. The major rules of life will stop you from evil and show you the good path in life; but the knowledge of many unnecessary sciences may lead you into the temptation of pride, and stop you from understanding the basic rules of life.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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9cdd2f0
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Well Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist-- and I really believe he is Antichrist--I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave', as you call yourself! But how are you? I see I have frightened you--sit down a..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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064b0b0
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Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective,
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tolstoy
leo
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Leo Tolstoy |
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3f08fa8
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wHd lnby mHmd qby'l l`rb w'nr 'fkrhm w'bSrhm bm`rf@ llh lwHd hdhb 'khlfhm wlyn Tb`hm wqlwbhm w'SlH `dthm lbrbry@ lhmjy@ wj`lhm 'm@ mst`d@ llrqy wltqdm.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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ece5683
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flns yshbhwn l'nhr yjry lm fyh jmy`an , Gyr 'n 'Hdh ykwn mstqyman fy mkn m wmt`rjan fy akhr , ws`an wDyqan . Sfy lm w`krh , ftran wbrdan whkdh sh'n lbshr , fhm yHmlwn fy dkhlhm bdhwr lfDy'l wlrdhy'l , fTwran ttGlb hdhh w Twran ttGlb tlk
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Leo Tolstoy |
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34e73d2
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Ali ljudi - veliki, odrasli ljudi - nisu prestajali da varaju i muce sami sebe i jedan drugoga. Ljudi su drzali da nije sveto i vazno to proljetno jutro, ni ta krasota svijeta bozjega stvorena za dobro svim bicima - krasota koja pozivlje za mir, slogu i ljubav - nego je sveto i vazno ono sto su izmislili oni sami da bi vladali jedan nad drugim
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Leo Tolstoy |
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f43ac01
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lm tkn bHj@ lttsl : lma kn hn . knt t`lm Hq l`lm , km lw 'nh hw ldhy 'nb'h bdhlk, 'nh kn hn lykwn Hyth tkwn .
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Leo Tolstoy |
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75a5f4c
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n lmr@ qd tkhd` 'shd lns dh wdhk , lkn 'shd lTfl Gb yktshfh wyu`rD `nh, mhm 'khfyt bbr`@
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Leo Tolstoy |
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2c9d5c1
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But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives and have, by the second month, come to loathe the sight of each other, want to get divorced and yet go on living together, it usually ends in that terrible hell that drives them to drink, makes them shoot themselves, kill and poison each other
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marriage
murder
love
problems
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Leo Tolstoy |
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f044d7b
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They abolish the external form, they suppress the formal sales of slaves, and then they imagine and assure others that slavery is abolished. They are unwilling to see that it still exists, since people, as before, like to profit by the labor of others, and think it good and just. This being given, there will always be found beings stronger or more cunning than others to profit thereby. The same thing happens in the emancipation of woman. At..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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One man may not kill. If he kills a fellow-creature, he is a murderer. If two, ten, a hundred men do so, they, too, are murderers. But a government or a nation may kill as many men as it chooses, and that will not be murder, but a great and noble action. Only gather the people together on a large scale, and a battle of ten thousand men becomes an innocent action. But precisely how many people must there be to make it so?--that is the questi..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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b70c0b1
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To take the simplest example: one man laughs, and another, who hears, becomes merry; or a man weeps, and another, who hears, feels sorrow. A man is excited or irritated, and another man, seeing him, comes to a similar state of mind. By his movements, or by the sounds of his voice, a man expresses courage and determination, or sadness and calmness, and this state of mind passes on to others. A man suffers, expressing his sufferings by groans..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him
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suicide
god
meaning-of-life
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Leo Tolstoy |
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f1a7f13
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Answer me two more questions,' said the King. 'The first is, Why did the earth bear such grain then and has ceased to do so now? And the second is, Why your grandson walks with two crutches, your son with one, and you yourself with none? Your eyes are bright, your teeth sound, and your speech clear and pleasant to the ear. How have these things come about?'
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Leo Tolstoy |
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there was apparent in all a sort of anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a consciousness of some great, unfathomable mystery being accomplished... the most solemn mystery in the world was being accomplished. Evening passed, night came on. And the feeling of suspense and softening of the heart before the unfathomable did not wane, but grew more intense. No one slept.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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74fcb97
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Our existence is now so entirely in contradiction with the doctrine of Jesus, that only with the greatest difficulty can we understand its meaning. We have been so deaf to the rules of life that he has given us, to his explanations,--not only when he commands us not to kill, but when he warns us against anger, when he commands us not to resist evil, to turn the other cheek, to love our enemies; we are so accustomed to speak of a body of men..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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b2fb877
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War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.
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war
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Leo Tolstoy |
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e0b04ac
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Formerly (it had begun almost from childhood and kept growing till full maturity), whenever he had tried to do something that would be good for everyone, for mankind, for Russia, for the district, for the whole village, he had noticed that thinking about it was pleasant, but the doing itself was always awkward, there was no full assurance that the thing was absolutely necessary, and the doing itself, which at the start had seemed so big, ke..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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e755308
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He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure whether what he said was very witty or very stupid.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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cb2b282
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This foolish smile he could not forgive himself.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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95948ef
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I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old.
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marriage
relationships
old-habits
stagnant
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Leo Tolstoy |
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a8789ca
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He had committed no evil action, but, what was far worse than an evil action, he had entertained evil thoughts, whence evil actions proceed. An evil action may not be repeated, and can be repented of; but evil thoughts generate all evil actions. An evil action only smooths the path for other evil acts; evil thoughts uncontrollably drag one along that path.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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acb446c
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We exchanged disagreeable remarks. The impression of this first quarrel was terrible. I say quarrel, but the term is inexact. It was the sudden discovery of the abyss that had been dug between us.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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d258a93
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There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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66e4c9b
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But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said rang false.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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4f713c0
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The most important acts, both for the one who accomplishes them and for his fellow creatures, are those that have remote consequences.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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c19c042
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My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons...
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writing
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Leo Tolstoy |
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d97493f
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Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Aleksey Aleksandrovich had lived.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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fdc2c50
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The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety.
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Leo Tolstoy |