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• It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.

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  People, Meaning Of Life, Majority

  "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, April 30.

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• I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.

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  Life, Courage, Two

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• All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

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  Inspirational, Karma, Peace

  "The Law of Love and the Law of Violence". Treatise by Leo Tolstoy, 1908.

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• And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.

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  Men, Yesterday, Majority

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1913). “Essays, letters, misc. (General articles ; Famine articles ; The Dukhobors)”

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• The one who is happy, that's the one who is right.

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• What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

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  Inspirational, Length Of Life, Soul

  "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, 1903 - 1910.

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• The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

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  Life, Change, Deep Thought

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”

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• I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

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  Thinking, Sometimes, Fortune

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.6, Vintage

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• I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

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  Writing, Rewriting, I Can

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• It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

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  Sleep, Battle, Spares

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.64, Vintage

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• Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

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  Women, Age, Golden

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• Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

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  Sad, Joy, Sorrow

  'War and Peace' (1868-9) bk. 15, ch. 1

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• A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away

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  Two, Twenties, Splits

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• All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

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  Hero, Forgotten, Villain

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• It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  'The Kreutzer Sonata' 5 (translated by Maude)

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• It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

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  Mistake, Men, Favour

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• He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

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  Love, Life, Marriage

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.415, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

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  Influence, Feels, Seems

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.19, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

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  Art, People, Characteristics

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• It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

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  World, Has Beens

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• I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

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  Want, Harm, Prove

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.528, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

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  Men, Political, Doe

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1891). “Church and State and Other Essays: Including Money; Man and Woman: Their Respective Functions; The Mother; A Second Supplement to the Kreutzer Sonata”

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• But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.

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  Sheep, Ideas, Safe

  Leo Tolstoy (2007). “War and Peace”, p.365, Penguin

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• All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

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  Ignorance, Men, Effort

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.1371, Modern Library

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• The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.

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  Mean, Men, Class

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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