Quotes from Leo Tolstoy

?ikayet etti?iniz ya?am, belki de ba?kas?n?n hayalidir.

Înainte m? sim?eam stingher,chiar panicat,când vedeam o femeie dichisit?,în rochie de bal,dar acum mi-e de-a dreptul groaz?,v?d în ea ceva periculos pentru b?rba?i,ceva ce contravine legilor ?i îmi vine s? chem poli?ia,s? cer protec?ie împotriva pericolului,s? cer ca obiectul periculos s? fie luat de acolo,îndep?rtat.

Our life's improvement and our fight against evil can begin only with the spiritual development of each individual.

Beni tan?d???n? sand?. Oysa beni tan?yan herhangi bir kimsenin tan?d??? kadar az tan?yor beni o da.Kendim bile tan?m?yorum kendimi.Frans?zlar?n deid?i gibi, nelerden zevk ald???m?biliyorum, yaln?zca.

there is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.

But every time there have been conquests there have been conquerors; every time there has been a revolution in any state there have been great men,

La verdadera religion no necesita de templos, ni de iconos, ni de salmos, ni de reuniones multidinarias. Al contrario, la verdadera religion entra en el corazón únicamente en el silencio y la soledad

when things are made awkward by people's excessive compliance and submission, they are soon made unbearable by their excessive demandingness and fault-finding.

Much sand has run out since then, many recollections of the past have faded from my memory or become blurred in indistinct visions, and poor Grisha himself has long since reached the end of his pilgrimage; but the impression which he produced upon me, and the feelings which he aroused in my breast, will never leave my mind. O truly Christian Grisha, your faith was so strong that you could feel the actual presence of God; your love so great that the words fell of themselves from your lips.

It was as though her nature were so brimming over with something that against her will it expressed itself now in a radiant look, now in a smile. She deliberately shrouded the light in her eyes but in spite of herself it gleamed in the faintly perceptible smile.

The third escape is that of strength and energy. It consists in destroying life, when one has understood that it is an evil and an absurdity.

Freund, mein getreuer Sklave, wie Sie sagen, wenn Sie noch ferner die Notwendigkeit des Krieges leugnen und noch länger die Greuel verteidigen wollen, welche dieser Antichrist begeht, denn es ist der Antichrist selbst, davon bin ich überzeugt. Setzen Sie sich

The Bell: "The storm is approaching, it is impossible to be mistaken about that. The Revolutionaries and Reactionaries are at one about that. All men's heads are going round; a weighty question of life and death lies heavy on men's heads.

and at once, amidst all the skaters, he knew her. He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized his heart.

With one burning hand she held his and with the other she kept pushing him away.

PART FOUR 1

But whether because stupidity was just what was needed to run such a salon, or because those who were deceived found pleasure in the deception, at any rate it remained unexposed and Helene Bezukhova's reputation as a lovely and clever woman became so firmly established that she could say the emptiest and stupidest things and everybody would go into raptures over every word of hers and look for a profound meaning in it of which she herself had no conception.

He felt himself and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than he had been before.

The day before yesterday I spent the night at Arzamas and something extraordinary happened to me. It was 2 o'clock in the morning. I was terribly tired, I wanted to go to sleep and I felt perfectly well. But

faith is a knowledge of the meaning of human life in consequence of which man does not destroy himself but lives. Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that one must live for something, he would not live. If he does not see and recognize the illusory nature of the finite, he believes in the finite; if he understands the illusory nature of the finite, he must believe in the infinite. Without faith he cannot live.

The faces of these young people, especially those who were military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their elders which seems to say to the older generation, "We are prepared to respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs to us.

Like a wounded animal at bay watching the dogs and the hunt close in, Natasha looked from one to the other.

Countess Bezukhova quite deserved her reputation of being a fascinating woman. She could say what she did not think—especially what was flattering—quite simply and naturally.

Estou dizendo ao senhor. Sempre digo aos senhores funcionários da magistratura - prosseguiu o advogado - que não consigo vê-los sem me sentir grato, porque se eu não estou na prisão, e o senhor também, e todos nós, é apenas graças à bondade deles. Levar cada um de nós à privação dos direitos particulares e a lugares não tão distantes é a coisa mais fácil do mundo.