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• The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

  Leo Tolstoy

  Effort, Useless, Littles

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.419, e-artnow

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• All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.

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  Grief, Sacrifice, Reality

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• A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

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  Christian, Being Free, Helping

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “What is Art?: "The Kingdom of God is Within You"”, p.236, eKitap Projesi

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• Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating.

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  Passion, Self, Blood

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• The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

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  Order, Political, Artistic

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• Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

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  Church, Christ, Assertion

  Leo Tolstoy (2009). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Edition”, p.68, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.

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  Husband, Lying, Heart

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• A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

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  Spiritual, Men, Two

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”, p.147, Xist Publishing

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• The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

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  Soul, Eternity, Reincarnation

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)”, p.692, e-artnow

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• There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before.

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  Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.522, Vintage

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• Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing.

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  Night, Men, Long

  "Confession". Book by Leo Tolstoy. Part 1, Chapter 5, 1882.

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• Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.

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  Dark, Night, Glowing

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.1141, e-artnow

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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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• Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

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  Hate, Purpose, World

  Elizabeth Gunn, Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1971). “A daring coiffeur: reflections on War and peace and Anna Karenina”, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.

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  Stupid, People, Feelings

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

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• There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

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  Fear, Lines, Terrible

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.188, Vintage

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• Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

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  Agreement, Tactics, Mass

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• I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

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  Men, Thinking, Ignorant

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• Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

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  Peace, Too Much, Instinct

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• At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?

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  Believe, Dust, Hands

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina: Tolstoy's Collections”, p.761, 谷月社

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• Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

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  Vegetarianism, Perfection, Humanity

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• In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.

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  Men, Order, People

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• True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.

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  Art, Sacrifice, Two

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “On the Significance of Science and Art”, p.65, The Floating Press

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• All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.

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  Cheating, Morning, Children

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• He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love.

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  Strong, Lying, Passion

  Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aylmer Maude (1937). “The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: Anna Karénina, tr. by Louise and Aylmer Maude”

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