A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Gaiety and grief and despair and tenderness and triumph followed one another without any connection, like the emotions of a madman. And… — Leo Tolstoy Grief Copy Share Image
“Speak to her now? But that's just why I'm afraid to speak—because I'm happy now, happy in hope, anyway… . And then?…… — Leo Tolstoy Hope 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
“As though I had been going steadily downhill, imagining that I was going uphill. So it was in fact. In public opinion… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute,… — Leo Tolstoy Brothers Copy Share Image
The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
“Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the… — Leo Tolstoy Fashion Copy Share Image
“But when she got up it was quite light, and it turned out to be half past nine. There had been a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pierre's madness simply meant that he didn't wait, as in days gone by, for people to show personal qualities, what he might… — Leo Tolstoy Madness Copy Share Image
“If we’re laying out a garden, planning one before the house, you know, and there you’ve a tree that’s stood for centuries… — Leo Tolstoy Flower Copy Share Image
“For days neither provisions for the men nor fodder for the horses had been issued. As no transports could arrive, the men… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life, replacing all his old desires;… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked… — Leo Tolstoy Affectionate Copy Share Image
“And what is justice? The princess thought of that proud word 'justice'. All the complex laws of man centered for her in… — Leo Tolstoy Justice Copy Share Image
“How can it be that I’ve never seen that lofty sky before? Oh, how happy I am to have found it at… — Leo Tolstoy God Copy Share Image
“Kitty made the acquaintance of Madame Stahl too, and this acquaintance, together with her friendship with Varenka, did not merely exercise a… — Leo Tolstoy Friendship Copy Share Image
“Yes, it was real hatred - not the hatred we only read about in novels, which I do not believe in, hatred… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“No, I'd better not speak of it. It's a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be… — Leo Tolstoy Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“In the past he had been unable to see the great, teh unfathomable, the infinite, in anything. He had only felt that… — Leo Tolstoy Existentialism Copy Share Image
“I have hundreds of roubles that I don't know what to do with, and she stands there in a tattered coat and… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Was it not youth, the feeling he experienced now, when, coming out to the edge of the wood again from the other… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pray only thus: Our Father, without beginning and without end, like the heavens! May Thy being alone be holy. May power be… — Leo Tolstoy Heavens Copy Share Image
“He knew that Vronsky could not be prevented from amusing himself with painting; he knew that he and all dilettanti had a… — Leo Tolstoy Painting Copy Share Image
“Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back… — Leo Tolstoy Boyhood Copy Share Image
“In that brief glance Vronsky has time to notice the restrained animation that played over her face and fluttered between her shining… — Leo Tolstoy Red lips Copy Share Image
“He had known at the bottom of his heart that he would see her here today. But to keep his thoughts free,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Yes, it is very likely that I shall be killed tomorrow,’ he thought. And suddenly at this thought of death a whole… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“The highest wisdom is founded not on reason only, not on those worldly sciences, of physics, history, chemistry, etc., into which knowledge… — Leo Tolstoy Ethics Copy Share Image
“We often believe that our life moves forward only when we meet others. This is not true. Our real lives unfold when… — Leo Tolstoy Life 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
“All he knew and felt was that what was happening was what had happened nearly a year before in the hotel of… — Leo Tolstoy Grief 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
“The rivalry of the European states in constantly increasing their forces has reduced them to the necessity of having recourse to universal… — Leo Tolstoy Military service Copy Share Image
“I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at… — Leo Tolstoy Authority Copy Share Image
