Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Literature
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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.
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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
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He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
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Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable.
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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
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