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Leo Tolstoy quotes

Russian Novelist September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910

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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. Leo Tolstoy
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but thesimplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man ifhe is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow ofdoubt, what is laid before him. Leo Tolstoy
Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art..."
Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do..."
I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now."Vronsky Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him..."
Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a..."
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Leo Tolstoy
In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, linked together, would be the expression of myself, though each individual idea, expressed separately in words, loses its meaning, is horribly debased when only one of the links, of which it forms a part, is taken by itself. But the interlinking of these ideas is not, I think, an intellectual process, but something else, and it is impossible to express the source of this interlinking directly in... Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and..."
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes. Leo Tolstoy
and new conditions of existence will spring up, to which other men will grow just as accustomed, and I shall not know about them, for I shall be no more! Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him,..."
But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink -- he recovered. Leo Tolstoy
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn. Leo Tolstoy
The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action. Leo Tolstoy
All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing. Leo Tolstoy
Napoleon, the man of genius, did this! But to say that he destroyed his army because he wished to, or because he was very stupid, would be as unjust as to say that he had brought his troops to Moscow because he wished to and because he was very clever and a genius Leo Tolstoy

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