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Leo Tolstoy quotes: I love everybody and pity everybody. I love everybody and pity everybody.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience. The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Now that Vronsky had deceived her, she was prepared to love Levin and to hate Vronsky. Now that Vronsky had deceived her, she was prepared to love Levin and to hate Vronsky.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attai its highest mainfestation only in conjunction with all kinds of art. Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attai its highest mainfestation only in conjunction with all kinds of art.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: No, I can't argue with them; they wear impenetrable armour, while I'm naked. No, I can't argue with them; they wear impenetrable armour, while I'm naked.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all. Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and what it was He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and what it was
Leo Tolstoy quotes: He spoke that refined French in which our grandparents not only spoke bit thought ... He spoke that refined French in which our grandparents not only spoke bit thought ...
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Prince Hippolyte, under pretense of helping, was in everyone's way. Prince Hippolyte, under pretense of helping, was in everyone's way.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves. The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair! When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: To live in the needs of the day, find forgetfulness. To live in the needs of the day, find forgetfulness.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Ah, how good! How nice! he said to himself, when he remembered that his wife and the French were no more. Ah, how good! How nice! he said to himself, when he remembered that his wife and the French were no more.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: The aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment. The aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation. There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith. Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new. Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble. In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past. Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Is it possible to say what one really feels? Is it possible to say what one really feels?
Leo Tolstoy quotes: When you feel depressed - have a cigarette or a drink or, best of all, make love, and it will pass. When you feel depressed - have a cigarette or a drink or, best of all, make love, and it will pass.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us. We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Pure, perfect sorrow is as impossible as pure and perfect joy. Pure, perfect sorrow is as impossible as pure and perfect joy.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: No man is satisfied with his fortune, but every man is satisfied with his wit. No man is satisfied with his fortune, but every man is satisfied with his wit.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy. The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: When joy disappears, look for your mistake When joy disappears, look for your mistake
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries. Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: You owe forty-three thousand, Count,' said Dolokhov, and stretching himself he rose from the table. 'One does get tired sitting so long,' he added. You owe forty-three thousand, Count,' said Dolokhov, and stretching himself he rose from the table. 'One does get tired sitting so long,' he added.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: A man has to think of his soul before everything else. A man has to think of his soul before everything else.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: -Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings. -Why are you so sad?
- Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Said He, whoever exalts himself, shall be humbled, and he who is humbled shall become exalted. Said He, whoever exalts himself, shall be humbled, and he who is humbled shall become exalted.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything. While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: But I shall spare her. On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism I will inscribe great words of justice and mercy But I shall spare her. On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism I will inscribe great words of justice and mercy
Leo Tolstoy quotes: He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend's eyes, evidently trying in vain to find the answer to some question. He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend's eyes, evidently trying in vain to find the answer to some question.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: I wrote everything into Anna Karenina, and nothing was left over. I wrote everything into Anna Karenina, and nothing was left over.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: It's bad to be unable to stand solitude. It's bad to be unable to stand solitude.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Before any definite step can be taken in a household, there must be either complete division or loving accord between husband and wife. Before any definite step can be taken in a household, there must be either complete division or loving accord between husband and wife.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: I must drink lots of tea or I cannot work.Tea unleashes the potential which slumbers in the depth of my soul. I must drink lots of tea or I cannot work.

Tea unleashes the potential which slumbers in the depth of my soul.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn. Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Love them that hate you, but you can't love those you hate. Love them that hate you, but you can't love those you hate.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave. Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Enough or not...it will have to do Enough or not...it will have to do
Leo Tolstoy quotes: The question how to live had hardly begun to grow a little clearer to him, when a new, insoluble question presented itself - death. The question how to live had hardly begun to grow a little clearer to him, when a new, insoluble question presented itself - death.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied. If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Olenin always took his own path and had an unconscious objection to the beaten tracks. Olenin always took his own path and had an unconscious objection to the beaten tracks.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: I've got four sons in the army, but I'm not crying about it. It's all in God's hands: you may die in your bed, or God may spare you in I've got four sons in the army, but I'm not crying about it. It's all in God's hands: you may die in your bed, or God may spare you in battle,
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her. Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase. The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Improve your kindness by exercising your intellect, and improve your intellect by exercising your kindness and love. Improve your kindness by exercising your intellect, and improve your intellect by exercising your kindness and love.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: God is my desire God is my desire
Leo Tolstoy quotes: When I doubted, there was hope; but now there is no hope and even so I doubt everything. When I doubted, there was hope; but now there is no hope and even so I doubt everything.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: I assure you that I sleep anywhere, and always like a dormouse. I assure you that I sleep anywhere, and always like a dormouse.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: A desire of desires: the melancholy. A desire of desires: the melancholy.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: I can't think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me I can't think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me
Leo Tolstoy quotes: But the peasants - how do the peasants die? But the peasants - how do the peasants die?
Leo Tolstoy quotes: In time, things fall its places for a man who know how to wait In time, things fall its places for a man who know how to wait
Leo Tolstoy quotes: If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents. If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: History, that is, the unconscious, common, swarm life of mankind uses every moment of the life of kings as an instrument for its own ends History, that is, the unconscious, common, swarm life of mankind uses every moment of the life of kings as an instrument for its own ends
Leo Tolstoy quotes: He felt he was himself and did not want to be otherwise. He only wanted to be better than he had been before. He felt he was himself and did not want to be otherwise. He only wanted to be better than he had been before.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Therein is the whole business of one's life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing. Therein is the whole business of one's life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life. To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: I only know this, that she thanks God for all her tribulations, and, above all, because her husband is dead. I only know this, that she thanks God for all her tribulations, and, above all, because her husband is dead.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Loose an hour and you cannot catch up in a year. Loose an hour and you cannot catch up in a year.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Every heart has its own skeletons, as the English say. Every heart has its own skeletons, as the English say.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife. There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them. They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint. The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children. Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job. If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Our body is a machine for living. Our body is a machine for living.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent
Leo Tolstoy quotes: If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present. If people tell you that
you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe
them. Real Life is found only in the present.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals. If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Anything is better than lies and deceit! Anything is better than lies and deceit!
Leo Tolstoy quotes: With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better. With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person. Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: He was in a full possession of facile, refined and agreeable intellect which he used to maintain his power and strengthen and increase his popularity. He was in a full possession of facile, refined and agreeable intellect which he used to maintain his power and strengthen and increase his popularity.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it! You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!
Leo Tolstoy quotes: When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change. When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold
Leo Tolstoy quotes: An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: In order not to give myself up to the desire to kill him on the spot, I felt compelled to treat him cordially. In order not to give myself up to the desire to kill him on the spot, I felt compelled to treat him cordially.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse. A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: playing patience, playing patience,
Leo Tolstoy quotes: We must live. We must love. And we must believe that there's more to it all than our lives on this scrap of earth. We must live. We must love. And we must believe that there's more to it all than our lives on this scrap of earth.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: It's hard to love a woman and do anything. It's hard to love a woman and do anything.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Don't steal sweet rolls. Don't steal sweet rolls.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is and will be beautiful, is Truth The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is and will be beautiful, is Truth
Leo Tolstoy quotes: A king is history's slave. A king is history's slave.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go. And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: These stupid chignons! There's no getting at the real daughter. One simply strokes the bristles of dead women. These stupid chignons! There's no getting at the real daughter. One simply strokes the bristles of dead women.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness they can find in other people. The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness they can find in other people.
Leo Tolstoy quotes: Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

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