“Nicholas felt a dread of their wanting to take him away from surroundings in which, protected from all the entanglements of life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There is an old Eastern fable about a traveler who is taken unawares on the steppes by a ferocious wild animal. In… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One step across the dividing line, so like the one between the living and the dead and you enter an unknown world… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The enemy stopped shooting, and that strict, menacing, inaccessible, and elusive line that separates two enemy armies became all the more clearly… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And… — 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
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
