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  1. Leo Tolstoy _ Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

    Yes, it was real hatred - not the hatred we only read about in novels, which I do not believe in, hatred that is supposed to find satisfaction in doing some one harm - but the hatred that fills you with overpowering aversion for a person who, however, deserves your respect, yet whose hair, his neck, the way he walks, the sound of his voice, his whole person, his every gesture are repulsive to you, and at the same time some unaccountable force draws you to him and compels you to follow his slightest acts with uneasy attention."
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  2. Leo Tolstoy _ Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

    Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back on that sadness of mine, seeing that always in it was an element of self-love - now a desire to show that I prayed more than any one else, now concern about the impression I was producing on others, now an aimless curiosity which caused me to observe Mimi's cap or the faces of those around me. I despised myself for not experiencing sorrow to the exclusion of everything else, and I tried to conceal all other feelings: this made my grief insincere and unnatural. Moreover, I felt a kind of enjoyment in knowing that I was unhappy and I tried to stimulate my sense of unhappiness, and this interest in myself did more than anything else to stifle real sorrow in me.
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  3. Leo Tolstoy _ Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

    In youth, the powers of the mind are directed wholly to the future, and that future assumes such various, vivid, and alluring forms under the influence of hope; hope based, not upon the experience of the past, but upon an assumed possibility of happiness to come, that dreams of expected felicity constitute in themselves the true happiness of that period of our life. Only God Himself knows whether those blessed dreams of youth were ridiculous, or whose the fault was that they never became realized.
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  4. Leo Tolstoy _ Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

    Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time than when the two best virtues -- innocent joy and the boundless desire for love -- were the only motives in life?
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  5. Leo Tolstoy _ Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

    The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened.
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  6. Leo Tolstoy _ Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

    what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life?
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  7. Leo Tolstoy _ Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

    When Mother smiled, no matter how nice her face had been before, it became incomparably nicer and everything around seemed to brighten up as well.
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  8. Leo Tolstoy _ Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

    It seems to me that what we call beauty in a face lies in the smile: if the smile heightens the charm of the face, the face is a beautiful one; if it does not alter it, the face is ordinary, and if it is spoilt by a smile, it is ugly.
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  9. Leo Tolstoy _ Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

    How strange it is that when I was a child I tried to be like a grownup, yet as soon as I ceased to be a child I often longed to be like one.
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