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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (/ˈtoʊlstɔɪ, ˈtɒl-/; Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, tr. Lev Nikoláyevich Tolstóy, IPA: [lʲef nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] ( listen); 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.

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Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

Dominion, Future, Important, Knows, Sides

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

Deceit, Honesty, Lies, Lying

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

Amusement, Art, Matter, Pleasure

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Life, Love, Loved, Moments, Reality, World

If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.

Children, Frightening, Pride, Spring, Watch

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

Hat, Important, Live In The Moment, Power, Time

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

Effort, Everything, Littles, Mental, Useless, Yes

Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.

Aesthetical, Art, God, Mean, Men, Say

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Boring, Everything, Intelligence, Intelligent

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Change, Changing, Inspirational, Motivational, Thinks, World

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

Fast, Gods, May, Men, Mind, Roads

He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

Fishing, Like, Occupation, Pride, Seemed, Stupid

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

Book, Heart, Law, Man, War, Written

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

Like, Mad, Mad Men, Men, Thought

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

Genius, Simplicity

All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

Actors, Feelings, Playing, Theatre, Whole

the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

Aroused, Delight, Died, Facts, Feelings

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

Execution, Exists, Experience, Expression, Power, Standpoint

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

Art, People, Soul

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Alone, Independent, Peace, People, War

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