Leo Tolstoy: The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and a — Leo Tolstoy

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

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A king is history's slave. — Leo Tolstoy
Now about your family. Do you know that since your daughter came out everyone ha — Leo Tolstoy
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he — Leo Tolstoy
One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it — Leo Tolstoy
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all e — Fernando Pessoa
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease t — Oscar Wilde
For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, — Duff Cooper
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes — Henry David Thoreau
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. — Napoleon