What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!
("War and Peace")
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All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.Leo Tolstoy
There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife
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Speak to her now? But that's just why I'm afraid to speak-because I'm happy now, happy in hope, anyway… . And then?… . But I must! I must! I must! Away with weakness!
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There are such repulsive faces in the world.
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I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.
Leo Tolstoy
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur
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