"Enough or not...it will have to do"
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Leo Tolstoy quotes (page 41 of 42)
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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. What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts" "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
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"Is it possible to say what one really feels?"
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"If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents."
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"If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life."
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"but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence."
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"If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you."
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"When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy."
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"I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world."
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"What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen."
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"The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous."
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"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. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320"
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"Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?"
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"One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie."
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"One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith."
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"I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit."
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"Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure."
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"Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get."
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"The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men , but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity."
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"Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?"
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