“My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons…” — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself. — Leo Tolstoy Change Copy Share Image
In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. — Leo Tolstoy Grief Copy Share Image
To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy — Leo Tolstoy Instinct Copy Share Image
“happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity” — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not… — Leo Tolstoy Facts Copy Share Image
How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all! — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her. — Leo Tolstoy Beautiful Copy Share Image
“The hero of my tale,” Tolstoy wrote when he was just twenty-seven, “whom I love with all the power of my soul,… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“My second sentiment was a craving for love. I wanted every one to know me and to love me. I wanted to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“mentioning 'our days' as people of limited intelligence are fond of doing, imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Sight-seeing, aside from the fact that everything had been seen already, could not have for him--and intelligent Russian--the inexplicable importance attached to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that… — Leo Tolstoy Actors Copy Share Image
“The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly… — Leo Tolstoy Family life Copy Share Image
A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely… — Leo Tolstoy Conception Copy Share Image
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the… — Leo Tolstoy Entertainment 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 Faith 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 Fear Copy Share Image
“The enemy stopped shooting, and that strict, menacing, inaccessible, and elusive line that separates two enemy armies became all the more clearly… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Svećenik je mirne savjesti radio sve ono što je radio, jer je od djetinjstva bio odgojen u tom da je ovo jedina… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No, you're not going to get away from us, and you're not going to be different, you're going to be the same… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You… — Leo Tolstoy Company Copy Share Image
“Since the moment when, at the sigh of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“When his daughters were born he had assigned to each of them, for her dowry, an estate with three hundred serfs; but… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
