16 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy about soul



  • Author Leo Tolstoy
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    A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And once a deep wound heals over and the edges seem to have knit, a wound in the soul, like a physical wound, can be healed only by the force of life pushing up from inside.

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    It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and that that part of her soul would quickly be smothered in the life she was leading.

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    He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his soul.

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    A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

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    Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere.

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