“You are in despair, because you wish to live for your own happiness.” — Leo Tolstoy Despair Copy Share Image
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. — Leo Tolstoy Beautiful Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself. — Leo Tolstoy Change Copy Share Image
“My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons…” — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“It was all so strange, so unlike what he had been looking forward to.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the… — Leo Tolstoy Hopeless romantic Copy Share Image
“He bent his head towards his shoulder and tried to look pitiful and humble, but for all that he was radiant with… — Leo Tolstoy Health Copy Share Image
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... — Leo Tolstoy Appreciation Copy Share Image
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“No hay situación a la que el hombre no se acostumbre, especialmente si todos los que le rodean la soportan como él.” — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them. — Leo Tolstoy Failure Copy Share Image
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible. — Leo Tolstoy Feminism Copy Share Image
And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful. — Leo Tolstoy Charm Copy Share Image
“If you want to be a clever person, you have to learn how to ask cleverly, how to listen attentively, how to… — Leo Tolstoy Clever Copy Share Image
“Anna took a knife and fork in her beautiful, white, ring-adorned hands and began to demonstrate. She obviously could see that her… — Leo Tolstoy Communication Copy Share Image
“With all my soul I longed to be in a position to join with the people in performing the rites of their… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
“You take Seryozha to hurt me,” she said, looking at him from under her brows. “You do not love him. . .… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“the event had to take place simply because it had to take place. Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We should always try to find those things which do not separate us from other people but which unite us. To work… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“That which constitutes the cause of the economic poverty of our age is what the English call over-production (which means that a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Then as now much time was spent arguing about the rights of women, husband-and-wife relationships and freedom and rights within marriage, but… — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Although these words of hers confirmed in me my conviction that I was not handsome, they also confirmed in me an ambition… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to understand art to be only what we hear and see in theaters, concerts, and exhibitions, together with buildings,… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred millions. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail… — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
“And I, too, am the same… only there is no love in my heart, or desire for love, no interest in work,… — Leo Tolstoy Contentment Copy Share Image
“But though towards the end of the battle the men felt all the horror of their actions, though they would have been… — Leo Tolstoy Battle Copy Share Image
