Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Peaceful Quotes

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

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Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

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Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

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I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

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The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

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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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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

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Life is fragile and absurd.

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Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

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

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But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

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The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

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Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

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A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

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Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.

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War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.

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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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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

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But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels drew level with her, she threw away the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the car, and with a light movement, as though she would rise immediately, dropped on her knees. And at the instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing. 'Where am I? What am I doing? What for?' She tried to get up, to throw herself back; but something huge and merciless struck her on the head and dragged her down on her back.

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