Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all its beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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