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“the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982”

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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

“All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.”

People Self Stories Reality Courses Interest Grief Attention Sacrifice Events Despair Paid Majority Description Exception Heroism Self Sacrifice Personal Interest

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320”

Men Looks Eye Felt Feet Distance Seeking His Eyes Peers

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199”

Thinking Mind Long Sometimes Bigs Joy Bits Sorrow Weak Wave Tiny Overwhelming Flash Big Things Small Things Joys And Sorrows

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207”

Real Night Left Known Shadow Real Life Unreal Resumes

Author:Oscar Wilde

“When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349”

Heart Lying Wonder Youth Servant Knives Portraits Exquisite Withered

Author:Oscar Wilde

“You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.”

Expression Sour

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. After several long moments, or it might have been half an hour-or possibly several sunlit days- they broke apart.”

People Thinking Looks Long Has Beens Hard Moments Facts Might Running Faces Hours Half Worry Arms Planning Broke Fifty Might Have Been Blazing

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.”

World Safe Metaphor Educated

Author:Robert Frost

“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”

Ifs Knows Men Would Be Romance Proud Pride And Prejudice Pride

Book:Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes

Source: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes

“And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?”

Stupidity Idiot Rationalize

Book:Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow

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