Leo Tolstoy quotes - page 7

The most important person is the one you are with in this moment. (Leo Tolstoy)
Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit. View quote
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Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you. View quote
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Error is the force that welds men together truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. View quote
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The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor. View quote
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There is only one enduring happiness in life-to live for others. View quote
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Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave. View quote
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking. View quote
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A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist. View quote
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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad. View quote
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There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way. (Leo Tolstoy)
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content. View quote
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We are asleep until we fall in Love! View quote
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The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere. View quote
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Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him. View quote
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Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime. View quote
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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's hard to love a woman and do anything. View quote
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I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore. View quote
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Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone. (Leo Tolstoy)
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art. View quote
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If there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. View quote
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Enough or not...it will have to do. View quote
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Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid. View quote
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