But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But one thing I beg of you, look on me as your friend; and if you want some help, advice, or simply… — Leo Tolstoy Best man Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens? Is it… — Leo Tolstoy Beautiful world 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 Body Copy Share Image
“Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart… — Leo Tolstoy Brothers Copy Share Image
“Has it ever befallen you, my readers, to become suddenly aware that your conception of things has altered — as though every… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“PERHAPS people will scarcely believe me when I tell them what were the dearest, most constant, objects of my reflections during my… — Leo Tolstoy Authenticity Copy Share Image
“Он, как и все люди, живущие с природой и знающие нужду, был терпелив и мог спокойно ждать часы, дни даже, не испытывая… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper...there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies… — Leo Tolstoy Goodness 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 Art Copy Share Image
The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . .… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
“Involuntarily it appeared to me that there, somewhere, was someone who amused himself by watching how I lived for thirty or forty… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of… — Leo Tolstoy Desire Copy Share Image
“Never, never marry, my friend. Here’s my advice to you: don’t marry until you can tell yourself that you’ve done all you… — Leo Tolstoy Advice Copy Share Image
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“The second brother, Seriosha, had dark curly hair, a turned-up, strongly pronounced nose, very bright red lips (which, never being quite shut,… — Leo Tolstoy Curly hair 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 Boyhood Copy Share Image
“The doctor arrived towards dinnertime and said, of course, that although recurring phenomena might well elicit apprehension, nonetheless there was, strictly speaking,… — Leo Tolstoy Ambiguity Copy Share Image
“Levin was almost of the same age as Oblonsky; their intimacy did not rest merely on champagne. Levin had been the friend… — Leo Tolstoy Friendship Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself. He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to each man’s life: his personal life, which is the more free the more abstract its interests, and… — Leo Tolstoy Life 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 History Copy Share Image
“Rostov kept thinking about that brilliant feat of his, which, to his surprise, had gained him the St. George Cross and even… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“It will readily be understood that Nechludoff’s influence caused me to adopt his bent of mind, the essence of which lay in… — Leo Tolstoy Character Copy Share Image
“Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and stood… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“„Sve je to nastalo otud“ – mislio je Nehljudov – „što svi ti ljudi – gubernatori, nadzornici, policijski pristavi, redari – misle… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But it was not only by this feeling, as Varvara thought, that he was guided. Mingling with his pride, with his need… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The whole of that day Anna spent at home, that's to say at the Oblonskys', and received no one, though some of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“Not all will believe in my teaching. And they who will not believe, will hate it; because it bereaves them of that… — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
“Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of personal pride. His… — Leo Tolstoy Depression 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
“He did not in his heart respect his mother, and without acknowledging it to himself, he did not love her, though in… — Leo Tolstoy Mother Copy Share Image
