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Leo Tolstoy


Russian
September 9, 1828
Novelist
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Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.


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Boredom: the desire for desires.


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Music is the shorthand of emotion.


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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.


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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.


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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.


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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.


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Tags: Death Make Even
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.


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Tags: Work God You
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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Tags: Truth Like Away
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
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Tags: Man Lives Himself
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
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Tags: Nature Life Our
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
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Tags: War History Alone
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
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Tags: Good Work Men