We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Ambition was the old dream of his youth and childhood, a dream which he did not confess even to himself, though it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I find it difficult now to recall and understand the dreams which then filled my imagination. Even when I can recall them,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life, replacing all his old desires;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Nikolushka and his upbringing, Andre, and religion were Princess Marya's comforts and joys; but, besides that, since every human being needs his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I endeavor to recall the happy comforting dreams interrupted by my returning to consciousness of reality, but to my astonishment so soon… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I'm inexcusably happy. Something magical has happened to me, like a dream, when you're frightened, panic-stricken, and all of a sudden you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All the while my head would be filled with vivid dreams concerning the heroes of my last-read novel, and I would keep… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Yes, yes, how was it now?" he thought, going over his dream. "Now, how was it? To be sure! Alabin was giving… — 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
But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“So that is what my dream meant! Pashenka is what I ought to have been but failed to be. I lived for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Levin had been married three months. He was happy, but not at all in the way he had expected to be. At… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act… — 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
