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  1. Leo Tolstoy _ The Cossacks

    Olenin always took his own path and had an unconscious objection to the beaten tracks.
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  2. Leo Tolstoy _ The Cossacks

    I do not live my own life, there is something stronger than me which directs me. I suffer;but formerly I was dead and only now do I live.
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  3. Leo Tolstoy _ The Cossacks

    Is it possible to love a woman who will never understand the profoundest interests of my life? Is it possible to love a woman simply for her beauty, to love the statue of a woman?
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  4. Leo Tolstoy _ The Cossacks

    He meditated on the use to which he should put all the energy of youth which comes to a man only once in life. Should he devote this power, which is not the strength of intellect or heart or education, but an urge which once spent can never return, the power given to a man once only to make himself, or even – so it seems to him at the time – the universe into anything he wishes: should he devote it to art, to science, to love, or to practical activities? True, there are people who never have this urge: at the outset of life they place their necks under the first yoke that offers itself, and soberly toil away in it to the end of their days.
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  5. Leo Tolstoy _ The Cossacks

    A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there is nothing on earth more splendid and interesting than himself."
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