Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Despair Quotes, Common Quotes

Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

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Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

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So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather than destroy they must consider it their first and foremost duty to support; that is so long as people do not behave towards one another in a religious manner, they will always ruin one another's lives for the sake of personal gain.

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

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That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him

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Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.

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A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

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Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

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A holy spirit lives within you.

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But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart – the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone.

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Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

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I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

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Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

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I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

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We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

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