In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic. — Leo Tolstoy Critic Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself. — Leo Tolstoy Change Copy Share Image
To speak of it would be giving importance to something that has none. — Leo Tolstoy Giving Copy Share Image
“The more we try to explain sensibily these phenomena of history, the more senseless and incomphrensible they become for us.” — Leo Tolstoy Explaining-history Copy Share Image
Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and… — Leo Tolstoy Answers Copy Share Image
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“No hay situación a la que el hombre no se acostumbre, especialmente si todos los que le rodean la soportan como él.” — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful. — Leo Tolstoy Charm Copy Share Image
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible. — Leo Tolstoy Feminism Copy Share Image
“Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.” — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children.” — Leo Tolstoy Altogether 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 Contempt Copy Share Image
“Sou amigo da divisão do trabalho. Pessoas que não fazem nada devem fazer pessoas, enquanto as demais devem contribuir para a instrução… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot,… — Leo Tolstoy Drama Copy Share Image
“It never before happened that the rich ruling and more educated minority, which has the most influence on the masses, not only… — Leo Tolstoy Money Copy Share Image
And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after… — Leo Tolstoy Cigar Copy Share Image
He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at… — Leo Tolstoy Distance Copy Share Image
Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are,… — Leo Tolstoy Doe Copy Share Image
Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves,… — Leo Tolstoy Chosen Copy Share Image
“Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of… — Leo Tolstoy Easy to fall in love Copy Share Image
“They had supper and went away, and Ivan Ilyich was left alone with the consciousness that his life was poisoned and was… — Leo Tolstoy Left alone Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he remembered having heard how soldiers under fire in the trenches, and having nothing to do, try hard to find some… — Leo Tolstoy Government service Copy Share Image
“...those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was… — Leo Tolstoy Deals Copy Share Image
“Imagine a flock of pigeons in a corn field. Imagine that ninety-nine of them, instead of pecking the corn they need and… — Leo Tolstoy Nature of man 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 Marriage Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to understand art to be only what we hear and see in theaters, concerts, and exhibitions, together with buildings,… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
