“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
“Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment. Sebastopol by Leo… — Leo Tolstoy 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
“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
“Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Let me give you a piece of advice: Leo Tolstoy is not the only human being on this planet. Yet all I… — Leo Tolstoy 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
“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
“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
“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
“The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible". Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a… — Leo Tolstoy 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
“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
“Yes, it was real hatred - not the hatred we only read about in novels, which I do not believe in, hatred… — 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
“Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist,… — 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
“There are moments when the future looks so black that one is afraid to let one's thoughts dwell on it, refuses to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I endeavor to recall the happy comforting dreams interrupted by my returning to consciousness of reality, but to my astonishment so soon… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“From another visitor to Yasnaya Polyana we learn that Tolstoy and his two daughters are vegetarians. The young countesses do not object… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In my considered opinion, salary is payment for goods delivered and it must conform to the law of supply and demand. If,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back… — 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
