| Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible. |
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- Leo Tolstoy |
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| One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen. |
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- Leo Tolstoy |
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| Music is the shorthand of emotion. |
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- Leo Tolstoy |
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| My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat. |
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- Leo Tolstoy |
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| If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. |
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- Leo Tolstoy |
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| I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness. |
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- Leo Tolstoy |
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| The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. |
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- Leo Tolstoy |
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| If you want to be happy, be. |
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- Leo Tolstoy |
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| We should show life neither as it is or as it it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams. |
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- Leo Tolstoy |
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| Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal—that there is no human relationship between master and slave. |
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- Leo Tolstoy |
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| He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. |
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- Leo Tolstoy |
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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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- Leo Tolstoy |
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| Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. |
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- Leo Tolstoy |
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| It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. |
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- Leo Tolstoy |
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