Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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

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• Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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• I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.

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• We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them.

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• The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.

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• Love those you hate you.

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• To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.

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• God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling…

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• To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

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• Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

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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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• Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

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• Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

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• There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

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• Boredom: the desire for desires.

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• Music is the shorthand of emotion.

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

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• There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

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  We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

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• Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

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Leo Tolstoy (101)

Birth:	9th September, 1928
Death:	20th November, 1910
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Playwriter, Writer

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