Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Children Quotes

Children: a torment and nothing more.

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But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels drew level with her, she threw away the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the car, and with a light movement, as though she would rise immediately, dropped on her knees. And at the instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing. 'Where am I? What am I doing? What for?' She tried to get up, to throw herself back; but something huge and merciless struck her on the head and dragged her down on her back.

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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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Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. ~The Kreutzer Sonata

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But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

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Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

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Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

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I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.

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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

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I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

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The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

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I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.

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The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

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The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

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Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

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