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Book is a nice companion — Leo Tolstoy

But his voice was broken, his face pale, — Leo Tolstoy

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. — Leo Tolstoy

Why ask? Why doubt what you cannot help knowing? Why use words when words cannot express what one feels? — Leo Tolstoy

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

Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You — Brooke Bida

Can't you go tomorrow?' she said. 'No, I can't! The business I'm going for, the warrant and the money, won't have come by tomorrow,' he replied. — Leo Tolstoy

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

Is it possible to say what one really feels? — Leo Tolstoy

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy. — Leo Tolstoy

When you feel depressed - have a cigarette or a drink or, best of all, make love, and it will pass. — Leo Tolstoy

Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness. — Leo Tolstoy

He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love. — Leo Tolstoy

There are many premium writers, yes? Tolstoy, yes? He wrote War, and also Peace, which are both premium books. — Jonathan Safran Foer

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. — Leo Tolstoy

There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent — Leo Tolstoy

The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures — Leo Tolstoy

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? ... All will end in death, all! — Leo Tolstoy

He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal. — Leo Tolstoy

The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity. — Leo Tolstoy

Read the best books first, otherwise you'll find you do not have time.
- Henry David Thoreau — Leo Tolstoy

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is! — Leo Tolstoy

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power. — Leo Tolstoy

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good. — Leo Tolstoy

The best solution is to be kind and good while ignoring the opinions of others. — Leo Tolstoy

He thought of nothing, desired nothing, except not to lag behind and to do the best job he could. — Leo Tolstoy

The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking. — Leo Tolstoy

Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over. — Leo Tolstoy

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. — Leo Tolstoy

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher. — Leo Tolstoy

I wrote: teaching what was for me the only truth, namely, that one should live so as to have the best for oneself and one's family. — Leo Tolstoy

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.
(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling ... — Leo Tolstoy

It often struck me as strange and disagreeable to hear him utter severe strictures upon some of these persons who seemed to me so good. — Leo Tolstoy

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided. — Leo Tolstoy

True nonresistance is the one true resistance to evil. It kills and finally destroys the evil sentiment. — Leo Tolstoy

Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more! — Leo Tolstoy

I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare. — Leo Tolstoy

An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply la constatation d'un fait. — Leo Tolstoy

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

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory — Leo Tolstoy

The struggle for existence and hatred are the only things that unite people. — Leo Tolstoy

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. — Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy carelessly neglects to include a boat race. — Mark Twain

But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink
he recovered. — Leo Tolstoy

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere. — Leo Tolstoy

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it? — Leo Tolstoy

If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars, he said. — Leo Tolstoy

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them. — Leo Tolstoy

One may say with one's lips: 'I believe that God is one, and also three' - but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense. — Leo Tolstoy

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. — Leo Tolstoy

You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to. — Tom Stoppard

But live while you live, tomorrow you die ... — Leo Tolstoy

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