Leo Tolstoy quotes - page 11

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly. (Leo Tolstoy)
There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious. To become oblivious in dreams was impossible now, at least till night-time; it was impossible to return to that music sung by carafe-women; and so one had to become oblivious in the dreams of life. View quote
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God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling... View quote
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It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes. View quote
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I can't think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me. View quote
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And where love ends, hate begins. View quote
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People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times. View quote
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In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. View quote
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He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light. View quote
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He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart. View quote
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I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it. (Leo Tolstoy)
Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs. View quote
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Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child. View quote
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Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand. View quote
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They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox. View quote
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There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes. View quote
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If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! View quote
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He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others. View quote
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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness. View quote
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There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth. View quote
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It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it. (Leo Tolstoy)
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. View quote
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The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions. View quote
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I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible. View quote
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With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better. View quote
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