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

Seni

But the princess had never seen the beautiful expression of her eyes; the expression that came into them when she was not thinking of herself. As is the case with everyone, her face assumed an affected, unnatural, ugly expression as soon as she looked in the looking glass.

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Kehidupan

You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.

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Doa

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

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Doa

Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere.

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Kreativitas

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

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Doa

I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body.

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Seni

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

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Seni

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.

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Kreativitas

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

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Kebaikan

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

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Humor

In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.

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Nasihat

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

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Kehidupan

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

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Motivasi

Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

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Kehidupan

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

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Kehidupan

We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life.

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Pendidikan

The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and intelligent man, he soon felt the impossibility of such a reconciliation.

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Kejujuran

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

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Cinta

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...

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Alam

Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to the point of a blade of grass.

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