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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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He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.

Leo Tolstoy

Light, No Fear, Fear Of Death

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “The Death of Ivan Ilych: English-Russian Parallel Text Edition”, p.122, Lulu.com

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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?

Leo Tolstoy

Understanding, Feelings, Able

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

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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.

Leo Tolstoy

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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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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He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.

Leo Tolstoy

Flower, Heart, Men

Leo Tolstoy (2017). “Anna Karenina (English German bilingual Edition illustrated): Anna Karenina (Englisch Deutsch zweisprachige Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.495, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

Leo Tolstoy

Art, Ideas, Imagination

Leo Tolstoy (2015). “What is Art?: "The Kingdom of God is Within You"”, p.432, eKitap Projesi

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There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

Misery

"Fictional character: Count Vronsky". "Anna Karenina", (I), www.imdb.com. 20112.

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The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.

Leo Tolstoy

Long, People, Mind Blowing

"What is the Jew?" by Leo Tolstoy, 1908.

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And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

Leo Tolstoy

Love, Inspirational, People

"Tales from Tolstoi".

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Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause.... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity.

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Fall, Boys, Apples

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It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

Leo Tolstoy

Fever, Way, Should

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.137, Oxford Paperbacks

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But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels drew level with her, she threw away the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the car, and with a light movement, as though she would rise immediately, dropped on her knees. And at the instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing. 'Where am I? What am I doing? What for?' She tried to get up, to throw herself back; but something huge and merciless struck her on the head and dragged her down on her back.

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Eye, Light, Hands

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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

Leo Tolstoy

Philosophical, Compassion, Animal

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I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

Leo Tolstoy

Thinking, Remembers Everything, Goes On

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.521, Vintage

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Without Greek studies there is no education.

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Greek, Study

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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

Leo Tolstoy

Love, Christian, War

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He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

Leo Tolstoy

Flower, Men, Looks

Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

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Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

Leo Tolstoy

Sacrifice, Vanity, Ease

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.211, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

Leo Tolstoy

Sacrifice, Movement, Chance

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.50, Oxford University Press, USA

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He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.

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Eye, Meaning Of Life, World

Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina (The Illustrated Edition): 40 original pictures from the first book with illustrations in 1913”, p.428, CCEL

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There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.

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Two, People, Use

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Journal of Leo Tolstoi 1895~1899 (Abridged)”, p.170, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Leo Tolstoy

Acquisition, Labor

LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

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I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

Leo Tolstoy

Past, Giving, Masters

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina”, p.939, Xist Publishing

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It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.

Leo Tolstoy

Crush, Men, Animal

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