Leo Tolstoy: "Everything that I understand, I understand only because..."

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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (; Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, IPA: [ˈlʲef nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] ; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential...

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It is within my power either to serve God, or not to serve Him. Serving Him I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.

—Leo Tolstoy

What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mold, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender, were already pushing their way upwards, destined to take root and send out living shoots so effectively that her all-consuming grief would soon be lost and forgotten. The wound was healing from inside.

—Leo Tolstoy

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

—Leo Tolstoy

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

—Leo Tolstoy

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

—Leo Tolstoy

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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