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- Leo Tolstoy: Russian writer
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All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
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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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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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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. His influence on the dissident writers of the Soviet Uniton was enormous. Figures like Grossman or Solzhenitsyn, although their language is less elevated, were dominated by a Tolstoyan desire to use fiction to tell the truth of history.
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Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
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I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
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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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