Leo Tolstoy

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Rusia · 1828 - 1910 · 304 kata bijak

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.

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Leo Tolstoy

Kehidupan

What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.

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Persahabatan

Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.

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Harapan

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

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Kehidupan

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

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Cinta

Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand. I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

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Waktu

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

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Perjuangan

With no doubt Al Hussain was one of the greatest rebels, for correcting the path of rulers who deviated from the right path. He, by his stance honorably acquired martyrdom martyrdom that free people wish to acquire.

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Kegagalan

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.

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Cinta

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

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Kehidupan

That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.

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Doa

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

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Kehidupan

And indeed, if Eugene Iretnev was mentally deranged when he committed this crime, then everyone is similarly insane. The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

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Kebahagiaan

The coffee was never served. It boiled over, spattered them all, and wet a costly tablecloth and the baroness's dress. But it served the end that was desired for it gave rise to many jests and merry peals of laughter.

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Kehidupan

I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it.

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Cinta

He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his soul.

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Kehidupan

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

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Cinta

He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes—according to the fashion—but for that very reason seem the most vehement partisans

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Kehidupan

He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

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Harapan

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before...

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Cinta

As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in his heart. To each of them it seemed that the life he led was the only real life, and the one his friend led was a mere illusion.

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