Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Justice Quotes, Doubt Quotes

If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.

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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

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To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

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The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.

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If you want to be happy, just be.

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Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.

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I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

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Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

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Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

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Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

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I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

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By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

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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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As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God.

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People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

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Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

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It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well.

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