Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Longing Quotes

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

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And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

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It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.

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Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

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In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

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The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

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There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

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The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

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the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

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One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

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Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

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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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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

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Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

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The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.

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The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous.

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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

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