Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Darkness Quotes, Clue Quotes

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

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You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

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Music is love in search of a voice.

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A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

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God is the same everywhere.

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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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To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them.

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I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

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Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

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The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

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He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

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I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

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The Kingdom of God is Within You.

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It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

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The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

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Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".

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If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

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Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

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