“Afterward I could not help admiring the discrimination of the host and hostess in the distribution of the children’s presents. The little… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But when she got up it was quite light, and it turned out to be half past nine. There had been a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two inevitable conditions of life, confronting all of us, which destroy its whole meaning; (1) death, which may at any… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was long before I could believe that human learning had no clear answer to this question. For a long time it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to… — 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
