“She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details,” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Before any definite step can be taken in a household, there must be either complete division or loving accord between husband and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Well Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“For the first time I envisaged the idea that we - that is, our family - were not the only people in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I know more of the world than you do," she said. "I know how men like Stiva look at it. You speak… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A man of the present day, whether he believes in the divinity of Christ or not, cannot fail to see that to assist in the capacity of tzar, minister, governor, or commissioner in taking from a poor family its last cow for taxes to be spent on cannons, or on the pay and pensions of idle officials, who live in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
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 – your heart, your soul. Beauty one could get to know and fall in love with in one hour and cease to love it as speedily; but the soul one must learn to know. Believe me, nothing… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“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 the opposite end of the ground. There was apparently nothing striking either in her dress or her attitude. But for Levin she was as easy to find in that crowd as a rose among nettles. Everything… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“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
