Quote by Leo Tolstoy
Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Music is the shorthand of emotion. – Leo Tolstoy

Other quotes by Leo Tolstoy

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat. – Leo Tolstoy

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Helping
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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. – Leo Tolstoy

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War
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How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it. – Leo Tolstoy

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God
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Other Quotes from
Music
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Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. – Eminem

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Music

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music. – David Hockney

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Music

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind. – Louis Armstrong

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Music

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. – Bill Cosby

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The case as a good lawyer must. Return he would not,
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It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. – H.L. Mencken

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What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. – G.K. Chesterton

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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. – Henry David Thoreau

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