“During the first, in 1857, he forced himself to witness a public execution in Paris, and the sight shook him so deeply… — Leo Tolstoy Execution Copy Share Image
Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life… — Leo Tolstoy Greatness Copy Share Image
“All such questions as, for instance,of the cause of failure of crops, of the adherence of certain tribes to their ancient belief,… — Leo Tolstoy Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
“He had heard that women often did care for ugly and ordinary men, but he did not believe it, for he judged… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...Nekhlúdoff clearly saw that all these people were arrested, locked up, exiled, not really because they transgressed against justice or behaved unlawfully,… — Leo Tolstoy Incarceration Copy Share Image
“He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to… — Leo Tolstoy Darkness Copy Share Image
“This is tantamount to saying, "My hand is weak. I cannot draw a straight line,—that is, a line which will be the… — Leo Tolstoy Straight line Copy Share Image
“Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did not succeed in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the… — Leo Tolstoy Mother Copy Share Image
“With the smugness of an end man on parade, he bounced along on his sinewy legs, effortlessly marching to attention, floating with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the… — Leo Tolstoy Belief Copy Share Image
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He felt for the first moment as a man feels when, having suddenly received a violent blow from behind, he turns round,… — Leo Tolstoy Time Copy Share Image
He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by… — Leo Tolstoy Heart Copy Share Image
Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as… — Leo Tolstoy Ambition Copy Share Image
“Napoleon, the man of genius, did this! But to say that he destroyed his army because he wished to, or because he… — Leo Tolstoy Napoleon Copy Share Image
“(In the Soviet Union, it was forbidden to celebrate Christmas. In order to keep the much beloved custom of the Christmas Tree—and… — Leo Tolstoy Christmas Copy Share Image
“Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky—Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world— woke up at his usual… — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do… — Leo Tolstoy Book Copy Share Image
“At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
“Chance created the situation; genius utilized it,” says history. But what is chance? What is genius? The words chance and genius do… — Leo Tolstoy Chance Copy Share Image
“He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so… — Leo Tolstoy Argument 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
You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
“I don't think anything," she said, "but I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead… — Leo Tolstoy Christ Copy Share Image
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I… — Leo Tolstoy Alive Copy Share Image
In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings… — Leo Tolstoy Accomplishment Copy Share Image
This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial… — Leo Tolstoy Comfort Copy Share Image
Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Prince Andrei was one of the best dancers of his day. Natasha danced exquisitely. Her little feet in their satin dancing shoes… — Leo Tolstoy Dance Copy Share Image
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What is precious is not the reward but the work. And I wish you to understand that. If you work and study… — Leo Tolstoy Reward Copy Share Image
“Anna Pavlovna turned toward him and, with a Christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his indiscretion, nodded and said: “I hope to… — Leo Tolstoy Forgiveness Copy Share Image
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