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“...except life's usual answer to the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: live in the needs of the day, that is find forgetfulness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: classics, history

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“Life is now given to man at the cost of pain and fear. Here, they are blinded by this sometimes. Now man is not yet that man. There will be another, new person, happy and proud, and for him it wouldn’t matter the death-life. He who overcomes pain and fear will become God himself. There will not be that God any longer.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

tags: demons, dostoevsky, god, life

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“Life is a dream, death is an awakening.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: philosophy-of-life

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“... questions which weren't solved by diplomats, would be less solved with powder and blood.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Sebastopol Sketches

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“Although throughout these painful moments it had never occurred to him to seek guidance from religion, now that his decision coincided - so he thought - with the requirements of religion, the fact of there being a religious sanction for his decision gave him entire satisfaction and some comfort.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: religion

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