Author of quotes: Leo Tolstoy. Page 4
He stopped believing himself and began to believe others. He stopped believing himself, and began to believe others because it was too difficult to live, believing himself: believing himself, every question must be resolved not in favor of his animal self, looking for easy joys, but almost always against him; trusting others, there was nothing to decide, everything had already been decided, and it was always decided against the spiritual and in favor of the animal self.
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Viker 05-02-2024 / 20:15
Then he was an honest, selfless young man, ready to give himself to any good deed; now he was a depraved, refined egoist, loving only his own pleasure. Then a woman seemed to be a mysterious and charming creature, now the meaning of a woman was very specific: a woman was one of the best instruments of already experienced pleasure.
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Viker 05-02-2024 / 20:15
Nothing supports you more than dousing with water and doing gymnastics.
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MegaMozg 05-02-2024 / 20:15
She valued him above all other people, therefore, according to his concepts, she understood him. And this understanding of him, that is, the recognition of his high merits, testified for Nekhlyudov about her intelligence and the correctness of her judgment.
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Viker 05-02-2024 / 20:15
All the things he used - toilet accessories: linen, clothes, shoes, ties, pins, cufflinks - were of the very first, expensive type, inconspicuous, simple, durable and valuable.
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Viker 05-02-2024 / 20:14
We must remember that we are not in place, but are sailing on a large ship, and the captain has a list, unknown to us, of where and when to disembark whom. Until we are disembarked, what else can we do but, fulfilling the law established on the ship, try to spend the time determined for us in peace, harmony and love with our comrades.
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Viker 05-02-2024 / 15:49
Life is like the steps of a child whom the mother has released from her embrace and will receive again.
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Viker 05-02-2024 / 14:55
This state of soul, in which a person is not aware of the evil that he is doing, occurs in a person when he either does not want to check his behavior with reason, or, even worse, uses his reason to justify his actions, when he has fallen under the temptations associated with them superstitions.
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Viker 15-01-2024 / 12:49
If a good deed is done for something, then it is no longer a good deed.
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Viker 15-01-2024 / 12:42
Just as all the water will flow out of a bucket if there is at least one hole in it, so all the joys of love will not be retained in a person’s soul if there is dislike for even one person.
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MegaMozg 13-01-2024 / 16:09
There is no such strong and healthy body that would never get sick; there is no such wealth that would not be lost; There is no power that does not end. All this is fragile.
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MegaMozg 13-01-2024 / 13:06
I thought that if I serve people with Scripture, then the one thing I have the right to do, what I must do, is to expose the rich in their untruths and reveal to the poor the deception in which they are being held.
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Viker 10-01-2024 / 16:55
... in this alone, in approaching death, is the reasonable desire of man. Desire is not in death, not in death itself, but in that movement of life that leads to death. This movement is liberation from the passions and temptations of that spiritual principle that lives in every person.
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Viker 10-01-2024 / 15:42
Everything was bad for me, everyone was to blame. I was the only one good, and no one understood it.
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Viker 10-01-2024 / 15:41
I despised all people, and these despicable people, their opinion was the only thing that was important to me, only for the sake of it did I live and act.
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Viker 10-01-2024 / 15:41
