“I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“...the aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?”

― Leo Tolstoy

“Happiness is pleasure without regret”

― Leo Tolstoy

“Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.

― Leo Tolstoy

“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

― Leo Tolstoy

“was serene. Her Moscow troubles had become a memory to her.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. ”

― Leo Tolstoy

“Attack me, I do this myself, but attack me rather than the path I follow and which I point out to anyone who asks me where I think it lies. If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!”

― Leo Tolstoy

“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

She had done all she could - she had run up to him and given herself up entirely, shyly, blissfully. He put his arms around her and pressed his lips to her mouth that sought his kiss.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“He knew that Vronsky could not be prevented from amusing himself with painting; he knew that he and all dilettanti had a perfect right to paint what they liked, but it was distasteful to him. A man could not be prevented from making himself a big wax doll, and kissing it. But if the man were to come with the doll and sit before a man in love, and began caressing his doll as the lover caressed the woman he loved, it would be distasteful to the lover. Just such a distasteful sensation was what Mihailov felt at the sight of Vronsky’s painting: he felt it both ludicrous and irritating, both pitiable and offensive.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt it in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“To get rid of an enemy one must love him. ”

― Leo Tolstoy


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