Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Talking Quotes, Hearing Quotes

Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

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Spring is the time of plans and projects.

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It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.

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Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.

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Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

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There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

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To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

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Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing.

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And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.

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Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.

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Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

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We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand

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In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

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Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

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The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

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she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

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The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

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The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

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