"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
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Leo Tolstoy
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Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here."
"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began."
"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad"but "good vs. good."
"To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it."
"truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
"I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love."
"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad"but "good vs. good."
"Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it."
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
"A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."
"If you want to be happy, be."
"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."
"Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere."
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad"but "good vs. good."
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."