Anna Karenina 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
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
1844Leo Tolstoy
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
4702Leo Tolstoy
He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.
4629Leo 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.
4458Leo Tolstoy
The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true
4810Leo Tolstoy
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
2007Leo Tolstoy
Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another.
2318Leo Tolstoy
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
4276Leo Tolstoy
Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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