Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Horror Quotes, I Have Learned Quotes

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

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You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

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There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.

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Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

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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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There are such repulsive faces in the world.

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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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They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

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Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

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It is very difficult to tell the truth.

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Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.

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We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

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I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

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

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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

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To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

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but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

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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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