Leo Tolstoy quotes - page 5

One must be cunning and wicked in this world. (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to. View quote
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All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing. View quote
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You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom. View quote
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And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect. View quote
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In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me. View quote
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Teach French and unteach sincerity. View quote
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it. View quote
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For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all. View quote
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I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I? View quote
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Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. (Leo Tolstoy)
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. View quote
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Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered. View quote
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Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible. View quote
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We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us. View quote
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The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones. View quote
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These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold. View quote
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We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do? View quote
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He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it. View quote
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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. View quote
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There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself. (Leo Tolstoy)
But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe. View quote
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A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body. View quote
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My life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it! View quote
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There are such repulsive faces in the world. View quote
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