Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Art Quotes, Food Quotes

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

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

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Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

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Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

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Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

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Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

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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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I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

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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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Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating.

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Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.

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

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Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position".

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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

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

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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

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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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War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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