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Very Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- 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…
- 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;…
- A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
- As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which…
- Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to…
- The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the…
- 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…
- Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth
- Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.
- Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is…
- At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the…
- 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…
- 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…
- To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
- He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet.…
- Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
- Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very…
- Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But…
- All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had…
- the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that…
- 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…
- So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you…
- At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them;…
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