“He did not in his heart respect his mother, and without acknowledging it to himself, he did not love her, though in… — Leo Tolstoy Parenting Copy Share Image
“He was much changed and grown even thinner since Pyotr Ivanovich had last seen him, but, as is always the case with… — Leo Tolstoy Last Seen Copy Share Image
“At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now… — Leo Tolstoy Bad breath Copy Share Image
“The one thing necessary in life, as in art is to tell the truth.” — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky — Leo Tolstoy Hope 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
“As Sterne says: ‘We don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable. — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself. — Leo Tolstoy Age Copy Share Image
“How beautiful Mamma’s face was when she smiled! It made her so infinitely more charming, and everything around her seemed to grow… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“„Sve je to nastalo otud“ – mislio je Nehljudov – „što svi ti ljudi – gubernatori, nadzornici, policijski pristavi, redari – misle… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would… — Leo Tolstoy Grows Copy Share Image
“If you could forget and forgive what happened." He snatched the chalk with nervous, trembling fingers, and breaking it, wrote the initial… — Leo Tolstoy Forget and forgive Copy Share Image
For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable. — Leo Tolstoy Eye Copy Share Image
“I don't give a damn unless I'm fond of a person;but I'd sacrifice my life for those I am fond of; the… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn… — Leo Tolstoy Absurdity Copy Share Image
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary,… — Leo Tolstoy Inspirational Copy Share Image
The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is… — Leo Tolstoy Example 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 Romance Copy Share Image
“Natasha was happy as she had never been in her life. She was at that highest pitch of happiness, when one becomes… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome… — Leo Tolstoy Aim Copy Share Image
India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world — Leo Tolstoy Great faith 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
We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not… — Leo Tolstoy Certain Copy Share Image
