Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Style Quotes

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

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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?

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She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.

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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

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Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.

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The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

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The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

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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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Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

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You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

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If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

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From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

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Every heart has its own skeletons.

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The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

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The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

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The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

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School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.

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