First time Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“This was his acknowledgment of the impossibility of changing a man's convictions by words, and his recognition of the possibility of everyone thinking, feeling,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In external ways Pierre had hardly changed at all. In appearance he was just what he used to be. As before he was absent-minded…

— Anonymous

“there was a new feature in Pierre which won him the favor of all people: this was the recognition of the possibility for each…

— Leo Tolstoy

“But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were ordered by…

— Louis Auchincloss

“Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power…

— Leo Tolstoy

“[Pierre] was seized by terror lest he had aready in some way bound himself to do something that was evidently wrong, and that he…

— Tolstoy, Leo

“[Pierre] involuntarily started comparing these two men, so different and at the same time so similar, because of the love he had for both…

— Leo Tolstoy

“How can he talk like that?" thought Pierre. He considered his friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the highest degree…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Pierre asked his confessor: “Is it a sin to marry someone you don’t love?” Father Moineau was a square-faced, heavyset priest in his fifties.…

— Ken Follett

“At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.”

— Jack London

“why had he happened to hear such a discussion and such ideas at the very moment when his own brain was just conceiving ……

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Man is not capable of thought in any high degree, and even the most spiritual and highly cultivated of men habitually sees the world…

— Hermann Hesse