Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Peace Quotes, Illusion Quotes

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

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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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He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

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The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

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The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

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It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

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The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

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The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

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Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

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I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

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Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

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When joy disappears, look for your mistake

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No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world's amusements. It is for this reason that "amusements" are not so amusing.

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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

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Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.

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Physical violence is the basis of authority.

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

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This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

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Life is fragile and absurd.

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