“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“show them, not in reasoning but in life itself, the joy of general union beyond the barriers set up by life itself” — Leo Tolstoy 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
“Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“if they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other just… — 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
I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the… — Susan Minot 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
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
“You’re trying to help them… that’s a good thing. But you can’t always count on seeing their gratitude,” he said wanting to… — Paul Alkazraji Copy Share Image
“And so there was no single cause for war, but it happened simply because it had to happen” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that what we call beauty in a face lies in the smile: if the smile heightens the charm… — Leo Tolstoy 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
If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“How strange it is that when I was a child I tried to be like a grownup, yet as soon as I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and… — Joel Carmichael Copy Share Image
A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole,… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
“Convinced that their own ideas were the key to the future of the world, that the fate of humanity rested on the… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“Count Tolstoy preached inaction. It seems he had no need. We "inact" remarkably. Idleness, just that idleness Tolstoy dreamed of, a free,… — 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
“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
Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
