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Leo Tolstoy

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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Donna Grant

"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."

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Donna Grant

"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."

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Donna Grant

"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."

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Donna Grant

"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."

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Donna Grant

"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."

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Donna Grant

"Music gives life to the soul."

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Donna Grant

"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."

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Donna Grant

"Music gives strength to the soul."

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Donna Grant

"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

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Donna Grant

"The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil."

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Leo Tolstoy
"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity."

Humanity

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Leo Tolstoy
"He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his life to the end, until death came. Darkness covered everything for him; but precisely because of this darkness he felt that his undertaking was the only guiding thread in this darkness, and he seized it and held on to it with all his remaining strength."

Purpose

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Leo Tolstoy
"What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!"

Philosophy

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Leo Tolstoy
"Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement."

Spiritual

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Leo Tolstoy
"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."

Life

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Leo Tolstoy
"The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragically."

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Leo Tolstoy
"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself."

Life

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Leo Tolstoy
"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."

War

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Leo Tolstoy
"While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything."

Philosophy

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Leo Tolstoy
"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible."

Life

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