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Life did not stop, and one had to live.

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Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1076, Vintage

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History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

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Would Be, Excellent, Ifs

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He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

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Death, Ideas, Mistaken

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... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

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Work, Rewards

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but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.

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Goodness, Minutes, Whole Life

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.696, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.

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Men, Thinking, Soul

LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

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Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

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Talking, Hearing, Saws

Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2319, Delphi Classics

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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

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Fate, Complaining, May

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He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

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Believe, Men, Evil

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It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it.

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Stronger, Our Love, Grows

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1978). “Anna Karenina”

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If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

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Home, Way, Sides

graf Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings”

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The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people generally not come to acknowledge this law? The answer is that the moral progress of humanity is always slow; but that the sign of true, not casual Progress, is in uninterruptedness and its continual acceleration. And one cannot doubt that vegetarianism has been progressing in this manner

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Animal, Vegetarianism, Law

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One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.

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Rights, Order, Two

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.506, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

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Soul, Digging, Might

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And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

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Maturity, Views, Circles

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What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.

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Hate, Lying, Asking

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After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.

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Stupid, Doctors, Fishing

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.240, Oxford Paperbacks

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In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

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Greatness, Men, Names

War and Peace bk. 9, ch. 1 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude)

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Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

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Lying, Men, Facts

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.17, Oxford University Press, USA

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Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.

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Successful, Desire, Overcoming

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Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and What men live by . When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.

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Mother, Men, Heaven

Leo Tolstoy (2015). “What Men Live By”, p.38, Leo Tolstoy

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In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.

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Life And Love, Eye, Despair

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.435, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

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Men, Reason, Relation

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

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Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

Leo Tolstoy

Book, Years, Paris

Virginia Woolf, Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer (2006). “Translations from the Russian”

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Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

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Fall, Autumn, Light

LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

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