“Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“He felt that in the depth of his soul something had been put in its place, settled down, and laid to rest.” — Leo Tolstoy Spirituality Copy Share Image
“War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand. And the worst of it all is that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“mentioning 'our days' as people of limited intelligence are fond of doing, imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure.” — Leo Tolstoy Cigars Copy Share Image
“Ambition was the old dream of his youth and childhood, a dream which he did not confess even to himself, though it… — Leo Tolstoy Ambition Copy Share Image
People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is… — Leo Tolstoy Accepting Copy Share Image
Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions. — Leo Tolstoy Government Copy Share Image
“He looked at people as if they were things. A nervous young man across from him...came to hate him for that look.… — Leo Tolstoy Young man Copy Share Image
“What energy!' I thought. 'Man has conquered everything, and destroyed millions of plants, yet this one won't submit.” — Leo Tolstoy Gardening Copy Share Image
the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982 — Leo Tolstoy Classic Copy Share Image
“The man who ten years earlier and one year later was considered a bandit and outlaw is sent a two-day sail from… — Leo Tolstoy Ten years Copy Share Image
These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that… — Leo Tolstoy Cards Copy Share Image
There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must… — Leo Tolstoy Forget Copy Share Image
I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it. — Leo Tolstoy Failure Copy Share Image
Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what… — Leo Tolstoy Assertion Copy Share Image
“As is always the case with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to… — Leo Tolstoy Attractive woman Copy Share Image
The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour.… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin). — Leo Tolstoy Firsts Copy Share Image
If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,'… — Leo Tolstoy I can Copy Share Image
The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument,… — Leo Tolstoy Argument Copy Share Image
But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this… — Leo Tolstoy Devotion Copy Share Image
I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse… — Leo Tolstoy Coarse Copy Share Image
