“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
I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy’s famous line, all happiness is alike, but each pain is painful in its own way.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To think of Tolstoy eating a sandwich is intrinsically kind of funny. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —Leo Tolstoy” — Beth Kanter Copy Share Image
In 'A Confession,' Tolstoy found meaning that he could hold on to, and he lived for another 30 years. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me… If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“The decrees of society are temporary ones; what Tolstoy is interested in are the eternal demands of morality.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
“Levin tried to drink a little coffee, and put a piece of roll into his mouth, but his mouth could do nothing… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime writer who ever lived. I am to the crime novel… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I very much enjoyed Leo Tolstoy's What is Art? I can't quote it, it's been a while, but at the end of… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
“...my longing was for Russia...Not Soviet Russia. But nineteenth-century Russia, the Russia of Dostoevsky's saintly prostitutes and Alyosha; of Tolstoy's Pierre; and… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“The hero of my tale,” Tolstoy wrote when he was just twenty-seven, “whom I love with all the power of my soul,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“While it's true that, as Tolstoy observed, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and everyone on planet Earth, vale… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals"… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Just as the universal family of gifted writers transcends national barriers, so is the gifted reader a universal figure, not subject to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“God help me, how Tolstoy sweats over drying up people's sources of life, of wild and joyful life, drying them up and… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“...there is something Russian about this particular use of the eye as an aggressive and defensive weapon. In Russian literature there is… — Erik H. Erikson Copy Share Image
“For the first time I envisaged the idea that we - that is, our family - were not the only people in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...And there really are men who believe in this, who spend their time in promoting Leagues of Peace, in delivering addresses, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“This, for both Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, is the central tragedy of human life; if only men would learn how little the cleverest… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don’t need you.” — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
![“In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals" and that hit me hard. I don't know where I got it. My parents warned me not to mention either of those books when I went for my college interviews so I wouldn't seem…” quote by Stephen Greenblatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d5f/stephen-greenblatt-10786_anna_in-high-school-i-read-lev-tolstoy-s-anna_2323091.jpg)
