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Possible Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite…
- Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about…
- It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a…
- I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.
- Is it possible to say what one really feels?
- Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.
- Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state…
- 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…
- For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
- Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
- 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…
- The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.
- Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it…
- For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.
- Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
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