He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.
("Anna Karenina")
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Church teachings are but fiction. I have knowledge of their inanity.Leo Tolstoy
But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?
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For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.
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Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.
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It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true, I deny the sacrilegious story of a God born of a virgin to redeem the race.
Leo Tolstoy
Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.
Leo Tolstoy
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