In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming… — 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… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“in infinite space and time everything develops, becomes more perfect and more complex, is differentiated",is to say nothing at all. Those are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In the love between a man and a woman there always comes a moment when this love has reached its zenith—a moment… — 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
“Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself, there lay only suffering, death, and eternal… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two inevitable conditions of life, confronting all of us, which destroy its whole meaning; (1) death, which may at any… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...And there really are men who believe in this, who spend their time in promoting Leagues of Peace, in delivering addresses, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Indeed, since ancient times, when the life of which I do know something began, people who knew the arguments concerning the vanity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“at one time, a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conceptions of religion, law and morality, who… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He understood not only that she was close to him, but that he no longer knew where she ended and he began.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“To every administrator, in peaceful, unstormy times, it seems that the entire population entrusted to him moves only by his efforts, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Well, what of it? I've not given up thinking of death. It's true that it's high time I was dead; and that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Papa was a gentleman of the last century, with all the chivalrous character, self-reliance, and gallantry of the youth of that time.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We talked of a future life, of art, service, marriage, and education; nor did the idea ever occur to us that very… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Much sand has run out since then, many recollections of the past have faded from my memory or become blurred in indistinct… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for that past… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He could not admit that he had known the truth then and was now mistaken, because as soon as he began to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are moments when the future looks so black that one is afraid to let one's thoughts dwell on it, refuses to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At the time we were all convinced that we had to speak, write,and publish as quickly as possible and as much as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“there is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we… — 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
“At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He felt for the first moment as a man feels when, having suddenly received a violent blow from behind, he turns round,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“With the smugness of an end man on parade, he bounced along on his sinewy legs, effortlessly marching to attention, floating with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The two girls used to meet several times a day, and every time they met, Kitty's eyes said: "Who are you? What… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was long before I could believe that human learning had no clear answer to this question. For a long time it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But when she got up it was quite light, and it turned out to be half past nine. There had been a… — 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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