Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910. Russian writer. His literary masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent, in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction.
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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
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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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I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor. - Tolstoy, Count Leo
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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