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If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.

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Writing, Play, People

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You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

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Over You, Asking, Dies

Leo Tolstoy (2007). “War and Peace”, p.272, Penguin

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Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.

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Hands, People, Be You

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.121, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

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Tragedy, Needs, Platonic Love

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.38, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.

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Spiritual, Hurt, Eye

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.1075, Random House

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In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

Leo Tolstoy

Pride, Men, Order

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In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.

Leo Tolstoy

Infinite Time, Space, Matter

Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.362, ReadHowYouWant.com

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It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things,
not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe

Leo Tolstoy

Love, Christian, Order

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1971). “The law of love and the law of violence”

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She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

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Needs, Lovers, Asks

Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina”, p.138, Xist Publishing

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My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.

Leo Tolstoy

Life, Real, Sleep

Leo Tolstoy (2013). “The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession”, p.215, W. W. Norton & Company

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Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

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Mean, Hands, Revolution

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I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.

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World, Spirit, Disappear

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.388, Vintage

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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 all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.

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Love, Mean, Hatred

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What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial navigation, nor powerful explosives, nor all sorts of conveniences to add to the enjoyment of the rich, ruling classes... but one thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth ...that for our life one law is valid - the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind.

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Life, Powerful, Simple

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The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour. He will strive to give the fruit of that supreme spiritual force which passes through him to the greatest number of people, because this conveying of the feelings that have been born in him to the greatest number of people is his joy and his reward. The artist of the future will not even understand how it is possible for an artist, whose joy consists in the widest dissemination of his works, to give these works only in exchange for a certain payment.

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Spiritual, Artist, Numbers

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All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

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Government, Evil, Anarchy

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Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

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Men, Evil, Reform

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.491, Modern Library

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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 the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.

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God, Men, Thinking

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

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Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.

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Men, Land, Wish

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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I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.

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Pain, Exercise, Injury

Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2326, Delphi Classics

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I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

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Life, Love Is, Men

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Collected Shorter Fiction, vol. 1”, p.926, Everyman's Library

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Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?

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Understanding, Feelings, Able

"The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1890.

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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

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Rain, Book, Reading

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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 dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

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Dream, Memories, Past

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.520, Vintage

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But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

Leo Tolstoy

Civilization, Source, Aim

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna karenina (Arcadia Classics)”, p.53, Leo Tolstoy

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Born: September 9, 1828
Died: November 20, 1910
Occupation: Writer
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