Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would...

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I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet...

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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked...

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He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

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We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but...

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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

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War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a...

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