He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over him, or what was said of him; he was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At times he would become so absorbed in reading, that all the kerosene in the lamp would burn out, and still he… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But the more intensely he thought, the clearer it became to him that it was indubitably so, that in reality, looking upon… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others' mind. I can think of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Alexei Alexandrovich stood face to face with life, confronting the possibility of his wife loving someone else besides him, and it was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“[...] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Nicholas felt a dread of their wanting to take him away from surroundings in which, protected from all the entanglements of life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...but most of all he liked to listen to stories of real life. He smiled gleefully as he listened to such stories,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Formerly (it had begun almost from childhood and kept growing till full maturity), whenever he had tried to do something that would… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pierre’s heart thrilled to these words as he gazed with shining eyes into the mason’s face. He listened without interrupting or asking… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Then these moments of perplexity began to recur oftener and oftener, and always in the same form. They were always expressed by… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He looked back on his past life, which had been so wretched. How had he been able to bear that terrible burden?… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But the more he strained to think, the clearer it became to him that it was undoubtedly so, that he had actually… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky—Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world— woke up at his usual… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
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