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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Time and Patience.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.”
    ― Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: thought, truth
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Life is fragile and absurd.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change. ”
    ― Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: ignorant, men, noble
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: honesty, truth, youth
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."

    - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love
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    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?”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “How can one be well...when one suffers morally?”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: morals, suffering
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: leo-tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Enough or not...it will have to do”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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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
    “Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “To get rid of an enemy one must love him. ”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: deceit, honesty, lies, lying
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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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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