First time Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

13 First time quotes by Leo Tolstoy

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Tolstoy’s keen eye for human feeling makes even a simple first encounter feel monumental. These thirteen passages explore the quiet dignity and restless yearning that accompany any inaugural step.

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“Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.”

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“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.”

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“Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth…

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“Pierre was for the first time at this meeting impressed by the endless multiplicity of men's minds, which leads to no truth…

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“When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his…

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“Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and stood…

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“At one point, in the east, the mists grew lighter and were clad in gold, like warriors. Then the mists swayed, and…

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“For the first time I envisaged the idea that we - that is, our family - were not the only people in…

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“Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself, there lay only suffering, death, and eternal…

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“Has it ever befallen you, my readers, to become suddenly aware that your conception of things has altered — as though every…

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“Since the moment when, at the sigh of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions…

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“Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I…

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“... and for the first time in his life the possibility of death presented itself, not in relation to the living world,…

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These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw…

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The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

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Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

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“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…

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To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,…

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To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

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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.

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“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at…

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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

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“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.”

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I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command…

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The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,…

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind…

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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