Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Art Quotes, Love Life Quotes

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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If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.

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Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

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To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

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It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

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It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

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Only those live who do good.

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Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

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Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

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If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

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I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

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Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.

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Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

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So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

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The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon earth, not because vegetarianism itself is such an important step towards the realization of this kingdom (all real steps are equally important or unimportant), but because it serves as a criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of man is genuine and sincere.

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The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.

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Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

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So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you want all of life to be made up of wholesome phenomena, but that doesn't happen. So you despise the activity of public service because you want things always to correspond to their aim, and that doesn't happen. You also want the activity of the individual man always to have an aim, that love and family life always be one. And that doesn't happen. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

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