Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Conflict Quotes

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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Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

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The Kingdom of God is Within You.

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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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But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who’ve never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages.

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I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

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I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

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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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Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

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It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

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Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.

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Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

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Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

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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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Faith is the force of life.

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Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

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Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

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