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.
– Leo Tolstoy
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- As long as we don’t cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us. – Rivera Sun
- Success in whatever format it prevails is founded on how deeply we master the inner workings of our minds. – Dr Jacinta Mpalyenkana
- This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. – Leo Tolstoy
- From the dear comes grief; From the dear comes fear.If you’re freed from the dear You’ll have no grief, let alone fear. – Anonymous
- Dear past, I survived you. Dear present, I’m ready for you. Dear future, I’m coming for you. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself – Amari Soul
- Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky… we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere. – Leo Tolstoy
- I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body. – Leo Tolstoy
- Grace (the Gospel) is under attack today simply because it reveals the GOODNESS of God. Nothing reveals the GOODNESS of God more than grace. – John Paul Warren
- God’s revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are. – David Platt
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- Great leaders have three things; inner light, inner vision and inner strength. – Amit Ray
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- … just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul. – Pope John XXIII
- I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
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- Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent. – Leo Tolstoy
- The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind. – Leo Tolstoy
- In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down. – Leo Tolstoy
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- I felt a wish never to leave that room – a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change. – Leo Tolstoy
- Everything depends on upbringing. – Leo Tolstoy
- She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was. – Leo Tolstoy
- Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There’s no girl who hasn’t gone through that. And it’s all so unimportant! – Leo Tolstoy
- Woman, don’t you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it’s always perfectly new. – Leo Tolstoy
- It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself. – Leo Tolstoy
- Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be. – Leo Tolstoy
- If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. – Leo Tolstoy