Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Goodness Quotes, Minutes Quotes

but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

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Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise." "Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I.

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They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

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In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

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And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

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The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

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

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Faith is the force of life.

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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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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

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The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men , but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.

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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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Our body is a machine for living.

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The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before.

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Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

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So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

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True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.

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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

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