Leo Tolstoy Quotes

...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

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Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression. Art is a human activity- that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are touched by these feelings and also experience them.

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In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in the evolution of feelings, which takes place by means of art. Lower feelings-less kind and less needed for the good of humanity-are forced out and replaced by kinder feelings which better serve us individually and collectively. This is the purpose of art.

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A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives

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Life did not stop, and one had to live.

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I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

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Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

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Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

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Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

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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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The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

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In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

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As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

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Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

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Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

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I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

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Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.

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Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

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