Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Grief Quotes, Joy Quotes

But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.

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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

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He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

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Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

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I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.

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Life is fragile and absurd.

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And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

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The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

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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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God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

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In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.

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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

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You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

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Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

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Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part.

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Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

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A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

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