Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Men Quotes, Long Quotes

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

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In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.

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The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.

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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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Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

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No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

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Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

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... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

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Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

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He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

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It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

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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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I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.

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He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.

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If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

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Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

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What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

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We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

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Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

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In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

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