Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which she had read the book… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared… — 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
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other… — 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 Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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 Image
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