Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Pain Quotes, Sea Quotes

Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

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Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.

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A holy spirit lives within you.

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The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

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The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

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

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History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

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God is the same everywhere.

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Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

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

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Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

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In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

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Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

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Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

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You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

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When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!

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I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

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Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

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She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.

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