“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
“Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It… — 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… — 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
In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pierre was for the first time at this meeting impressed by the endless multiplicity of men's minds, which leads to no truth… — 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
“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
“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
“At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over him, or what was said of him; he was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The faces of these young people, especially those who were militarymen, bore that expression of condescending respect for their elders which seems… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He understood not only that she was close to him, but that he no longer knew where she ended and he began.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Well, what of it? I've not given up thinking of death. It's true that it's high time I was dead; and that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“To every administrator, in peaceful, unstormy times, it seems that the entire population entrusted to him moves only by his efforts, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“at one time, a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conceptions of religion, law and morality, who… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“[...] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Throughout the whole time that Grandmama's body was in the house I was oppressed with the fear of death, for the corpse… — 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
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society… — 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
“Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Let others be afraid, but the soul is not afraid of anything. It lives according to its own laws. It is bigger… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Did he suffer very much?" asked Pyotr Ivanovich. "Oh, awfully! For the last moments, hours indeed, he never left off screaming. For… — 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
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
“A moment ago, and how close she had been to him, of what importance in his life! And how aloof and remote… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as… — 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
“In the love between a man and a woman there always comes a moment when this love has reached its zenith—a moment… — 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
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