Leo Tolstoy Quotes

• Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their lives as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

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• What is called science today consists of a haphazard heap of information, united by nothing, often utterly unnecessary, and not only failing to present one unquestionable truth, but as often as not containing the grossest errors today put forward as truths, and tomorrow overthrown.

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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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• Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyse it by encumbering it with remedies.

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• If everyone fought only for his own convictions, there would be no wars.

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• As long as there are slaughterhouses… there will be battlefields.

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• All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

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• We are asleep until we fall in Love!

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• What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing.

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• Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

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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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• God gave the day, God gave the strength.

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• It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.

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• Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.

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• The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…

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• The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

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• Happiness is pleasure without regret.

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

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• You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

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• Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

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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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