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I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.

I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.
– Sergei Lukyanenko

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  1. Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment.Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy – Leo Tolstoy
  2. In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. – Sergei Lukyanenko
  3. Do you know what it’s like to be condemned to love? – Sergei Lukyanenko
  4. Being on the side of the Light is much tougher than being on the side of the Dark… – Sergei Lukyanenko
  5. Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world. – Sergei Lukyanenko
  6. And that, Pavel, is why you shouldn’t use magic for every tiny little thing. Where you can put your trust in science, that’s what you should do. – Sergei Lukyanenko
  7. Others are not born bad or good… and neither are people, by the way. – Sergei Lukyanenko
  8. The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm. – Sergei Lukyanenko
  9. Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together. – Sergei Lukyanenko
  10. After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl. – Sergei Lukyanenko
  11. When leaders betray their people and the people don’t overthrow them, it’s not just the leaders who should be blamed. – Sergei Lukyanenko
  12. Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present. – Leo Tolstoy
  13. Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent. – Leo Tolstoy
  14. There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead. – Leo Tolstoy
  15. He remembered his mother’s love for him, and his family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him seemed impossible. – Leo Tolstoy
  16. What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing! – Leo Tolstoy
  17. True life is lived when tiny changes occur. – Leo Tolstoy
  18. All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade. – Leo Tolstoy
  19. 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
  20. This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. – Leo Tolstoy
  21. The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind. – Leo Tolstoy
  22. In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down. – Leo Tolstoy
  23. Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. – Leo Tolstoy
  24. But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. – Leo Tolstoy
  25. One must be cunning and wicked in this world. – Leo Tolstoy
  26. Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another? – Leo Tolstoy
  27. Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. – Leo Tolstoy
  28. The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him – six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs. – Leo Tolstoy
  29. Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it ourselves, and we do not complain of it. – Leo Tolstoy
  30. 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
  31. Everything depends on upbringing. – Leo Tolstoy
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility. – Leo Tolstoy
  35. Woman, don’t you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it’s always perfectly new. – Leo Tolstoy
  36. It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself. – Leo Tolstoy
  37. Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be. – Leo Tolstoy
  38. everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all. – Leo Tolstoy
  39. Happiness is pleasure without regret – Leo Tolstoy
  40. If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. – Leo Tolstoy

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