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Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}"
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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love
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2e56d67
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Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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beauty
leo-tolstoy
diversity
charm
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I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.
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love
unhappy
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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death
inspirational
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Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I felt for the first time, when dying, I saw my enemy and yet loved him. I knew that feeling of love which is the essence of the soul, for which no object is needed. And I know that blissful feeling now too. To love one's neighbours; to love one's enemies. To love everything - to Love God in all His manifestations. Some on..
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She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.
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unspoken
together
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Leo Tolstoy |
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1366f2c
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How can one be well...when one suffers morally?
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suffering
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Leo Tolstoy |
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99af685
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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intelligent
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Leo Tolstoy |
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baacc9a
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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a3dab5b
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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science
reductionism
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Leo Tolstoy |
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e121d39
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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d1ee74f
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It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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god
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Leo Tolstoy |
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There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
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life
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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8a4e1e8
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He went down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, but he saw her, as one sees the sun, without looking.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible....except by getting off his back.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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560560e
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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it
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sadness
love
leo-tolstoy
despair
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Leo Tolstoy |
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aaa096e
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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75d8bc1
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Everything depends on upbringing.
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upbringing
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Leo Tolstoy |
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48a0add
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Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?
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heartbreak
heart
pills
broken-heart
heartache
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6198c55
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He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.
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love
gaze
anna-karenina
stare
avoiding
tolstoy
flattery
sun
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Leo Tolstoy |
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389797b
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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life
inspirational
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Leo Tolstoy |
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3ce0cb4
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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60f99eb
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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pacing
war-and-peace
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Leo Tolstoy |
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e6520c5
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God is the same everywhere.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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ac01391
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We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.
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relationships
heartbreak
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A Frenchman's self-assurance stems from his belief that he is mentally and physically irresistibly fascinating to both men and women. An Englishman's self-assurance is founded on his being a citizen of the best organized state in the world and on the fact that, as an Englishman, he always knows what to do, and that whatever he does as an Englishman is unquestionably correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forg..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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746fb30
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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sorrow
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Leo Tolstoy |
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a30e8a0
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and eat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There..
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Leo Tolstoy |
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And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.
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life
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Leo Tolstoy |
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a2b63e9
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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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Leo Tolstoy |
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8d276bf
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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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love
levin
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Leo Tolstoy |
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5e15eac
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Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?"
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Leo Tolstoy |
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06f45c8
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The Kingdom of God is Within You,
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Leo Tolstoy |
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6e61d93
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As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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5837c62
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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world
wicked
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Leo Tolstoy |
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f06f080
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Enough or not...it will have to do
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Leo Tolstoy |
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8ee01d4
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In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
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relationships
praise
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Leo Tolstoy |
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1f3df22
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He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.
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