“Like the majority of irreproachably virtuous women, wearying often of the monotony of a virtuous life, Dolly from a distance excused illicit… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Then she thought of how life could still be happy, and how tormentingly she loved and hated him, and how terribly her… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There never has been and cannot be a good life without self-control. Apart from self-control no good life is imaginable.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute,… — 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
“If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. A living man knows himself not otherwise… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He looked back on his past life, which had been so wretched. How had he been able to bear that terrible burden?… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We often believe that our life moves forward only when we meet others. This is not true. Our real lives unfold when… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life, which is the more free the more abstract its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand because I love. Everything is united by it alone.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“PERHAPS people will scarcely believe me when I tell them what were the dearest, most constant, objects of my reflections during my… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Has it ever befallen you, my readers, to become suddenly aware that your conception of things has altered — as though every… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Involuntarily it appeared to me that there, somewhere, was someone who amused himself by watching how I lived for thirty or forty… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Time is an illusion of life; the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“History – the amorphous, unconscious life within the swarm of humanity – exploits every minute in the lives of kings as an… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Medieval Italian life had recently become so fascinating for Vronsky that he even began wearing his hat and a wrap thrown over… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to love a woman who will never understand the profoundest interests of my life? Is it possible to love… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Looking into Napoleon's eyes, Prince Andrei thought about the insignificance of grandeur, about the insignificance of life, the meaning of which no… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.… — 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
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
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
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
