Russian - Novelist | September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Leo Tolstoy
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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
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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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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
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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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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
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