These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He felt for the first moment as a man feels when, having suddenly received a violent blow from behind, he turns round,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Much sand has run out since then, many recollections of the past have faded from my memory or become blurred in indistinct… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Then as now much time was spent arguing about the rights of women, husband-and-wife relationships and freedom and rights within marriage, but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But in the course of the war they waged against the taiga, scorching it with fire, and attacking it with iron, Makar’s… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Besides, to fall out of love and in love at the same time is to love twice as deeply as one did… — 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
“Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for that past… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Then these moments of perplexity began to recur oftener and oftener, and always in the same form. They were always expressed by… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At times he would become so absorbed in reading, that all the kerosene in the lamp would burn out, and still he… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“there is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.” — 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
“But it did not interest her at all. She and Levin had a conversation of there own, yet not a conversation but… — 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
