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Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Music is love in search of a voice.”

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Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more

“What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart.”

World Heart Self Desire Passion This World Color Promise Landscape Reasonable Pale Spontaneous Be Spontaneous Backsides

Book:Red: passion and patience in the desert

Source: Red: passion and patience in the desert

“Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.”

Passion Rooms Strange Rounds Yield

Book:A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909

Source: A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909

“To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstandin g of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear.”

World Reality Identity This World Strange Weakness Disappear Betray Retreat Abiding Untouchables

Author:David Whyte

“You are your best self when you give yourself away.”

Giving Self Best Self

Author:Karen Armstrong

“I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.”

Giving Persons Type Giving Up Rough Coward

Author:Kevin Garnett

“The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.”

Fun Circus

Author:Ernest Hemingway

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