Tolstoy Quotes
Leo Tolstoy
I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
1234Leo Tolstoy
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.
4458 Woody Allen
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
1344 P.G. Wodehouse
Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.
1504 Gretchen Rubin
Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.
4432 Leo Tolstoy
And so there was no single cause for war, but it happened simply because it had to happen
1035 Joel Carmichael
Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself.
from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2141 Leo Tolstoy
Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective,
of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and
therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.
2047 Leo Tolstoy
If everyone fought only for his own convictions, there would be no wars.
3011 Leo Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
1138 Leo Tolstoy
Anna Mikhaylovna was already embracing her and weeping. The countess wept too. They wept because they were friends, and because they were kindhearted, and because they - friends from childhood - had to think about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... But those tears were pleasant to them both.
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