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Stories Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life;…
- I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
- All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
- All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in…
- Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
- The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.
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