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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
    tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: inspirational, life, work
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: men-women
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: honesty, independent-thought
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие
    tags: books, conduct-of-life, contentment, country, happiness, life, music, nature, neighborliness, rest, usefulness, work
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Boredom: the desire for desires.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: truth
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: soul, souls
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
    tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong
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    Pyotr Kropotkin
    “Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.”
    ― Peter Kropotkin, In Russian and French Prisons
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    Pyotr Kropotkin
    “Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for? ”
    ― Peter Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.”
    ― Nikolai Gogol
    tags: beauty, perception
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”
    ― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
    tags: humanity
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
    tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: birth-control, empowerment-of-women, mother-teresa, poverty, poverty-alleviation
    474 likes

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  • #31
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
    tags: logic, love
    9155 likes



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