Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Strong Quotes, Lying Quotes

He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love.

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How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.

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

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The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

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

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The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

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Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

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Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.

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Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

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We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

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Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

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In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

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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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Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

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And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

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The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

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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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