...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. ” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I feel even more incapable of returning to Russia the same as when I left it. It's just one more of those… — 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
“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for… — 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
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