“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
“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
“I think it delightful too," I said; "but I am sad just because of the beauty of it all. All is so… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“My life seemed so wretched, the future so hopeless, the past so black!” — 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
