Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Art Quotes

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

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It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which power may fall, and does fall, into the, hands of the worst men.

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…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.

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In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement. When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertake. Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

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There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

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Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

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To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'

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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.

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

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I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.

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Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

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Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

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I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

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Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

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but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

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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.

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I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

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A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.

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... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

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