If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Leo TolstoyAnd the moujiks? How do the moujiks die?
Leo TolstoyWhat I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.
Leo TolstoyTo tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
Leo TolstoyTo get rid of an enemy one must love him.
Leo TolstoyHe was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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if they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other just what they were thinking and feeling, then they would just have looked into each other’s eyes, and Constantine would only have said: ‘You’re dying, dying, dying!’ – while Nicholas would simply have replied: ‘I know I’m dying, but I’m afraid, afraid, afraid!’ That’s all they would have said if they’d been talking straight from the heart. But it was impossible to live that way, so Levin tried to do what he’d been trying to do all his life without being able to, what a great many people could do so well, as he observed, and without which life was impossible: he tried to say something different from what he thought, and he always felt it came out false, that his brother caught him out and was irritated by it.
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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 TolstoyAll great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!
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