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Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?


Leo Tolstoy

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LEO TOLSTOY Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mat...
LEO TOLSTOY Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inn...
LEO TOLSTOY While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything.
LEO TOLSTOY Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentime...
LEO TOLSTOY You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by...
LEO TOLSTOY Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
LEO TOLSTOY But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
LEO TOLSTOY In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's comp...
LEO TOLSTOY But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordina...
LEO TOLSTOY The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l...
LEO TOLSTOY Spring is the time of plans and projects.
LEO TOLSTOY He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing t...
LEO TOLSTOY If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by...
LEO TOLSTOY Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one ...
LEO TOLSTOY I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's...
LEO TOLSTOY All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
LEO TOLSTOY Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was...
LEO TOLSTOY Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had...
LEO TOLSTOY In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubbl...
LEO TOLSTOY Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was ...
LEO TOLSTOY You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love...
LEO TOLSTOY He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happines...
LEO TOLSTOY One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
LEO TOLSTOY The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.
LEO TOLSTOY