Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those … - Leo Tolstoy

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When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Leo Tolstoy

Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

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You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

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I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

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