“Pure, perfect sorrow is as impossible as pure and perfect joy.” — Leo Tolstoy Fictional character Copy Share Image
“Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” — Leo Tolstoy Learning Copy Share Image
“What's all this love of arguing? No one ever convinces anyone else.” — Leo Tolstoy Arguing Copy Share Image
Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death. — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment. — Leo Tolstoy Aim Copy Share Image
Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've… — Leo Tolstoy Done Copy Share Image
“O lo que yo llamaba racional no lo era tanto como había pensado, o lo que me parecía irracional no lo era… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man. — Leo Tolstoy Men Copy Share Image
“Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.” — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith. — Leo Tolstoy Faith 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
“But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — Leo Tolstoy Amusing Copy Share Image
And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be… — Leo Tolstoy Distress Copy Share Image
“As the sun and each atom of ether is a shphere complete in itself, yet at the same time only a part… — Leo Tolstoy Ether Copy Share Image
The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and… — Leo Tolstoy Lovers 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 Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence… — Leo Tolstoy Anarchist Copy Share Image
“Yet it was a strange thing that, though we sometimes passed whole hours together without speaking when we were alone, the mere… — Leo Tolstoy Intimacy Copy Share Image
“But though towards the end of the battle the men felt all the horror of their actions, though they would have been… — Leo Tolstoy War Copy Share Image
“... and for the first time in his life the possibility of death presented itself, not in relation to the living world,… — Leo Tolstoy Clear vision Copy Share Image
“man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our… — Leo Tolstoy Idleness Copy Share Image
“Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I… — Leo Tolstoy Divine love Copy Share Image
“Did the Toyon not see that he, too, had been born like the others—with bright, open eyes, in which heaven and earth… — Leo Tolstoy Heaven and earth Copy Share Image
“De la o vreme, Ivan Ilici isi petrecea mai tot timpul incercand sa retraiasca clipele de odinioara, cand vechile sentimente il tinusera… — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
“It was all so strange, so unlike what he had been looking forward to.” — Leo Tolstoy Looking forward Copy Share Image
