How to find a word, words, or a sentence in this Pdf’s

First you need to download the Pdf or the Pdf’s on your computer.

Ones you have clicked on a Pdf title, after a while, you will see the Pdf opening.

Download-speed depends on your internet speed and your computer.

If the Pdf is downloaded and you see it open, save it on your computer in a new folder that you made for it.

You can download as many Pdf’s as you want and save them in that folder.

If you downloaded all of them in one folder, then you can also look for a word or more in all that Pdf’s at once.

To start a search, you have two possibilities:

1. Searching in one Pdf.

Open the Pdf, on the top you have a menu, click on “Edit” and select “Find” for a word in this Pdf.

Click on next to see the next place in that Pdf.

2. Searching in one or more Pdf’s.

Open one Pdf, click on “Edit”, go to “Advanced search”

A window will open.

Make your choice “current document” or “All Pdf documents in”

If you made the choice “All documents in”, click on the arrow right on the bar below it.

There you can look for the place on your computer where you have the Pdf-Folder.

If you don’t see the folder click on “Browse for location” and find the folder on your computer, then click on it

once.

This is the place where the search will be done.

Below the definition of the place you can fill in the word, words or even a sentence that you look for in all of

the Pdf’s.

Below that you can select the format for the search if needed.

Click on “Search” button below, another window will open.

If you see a Security Warning pop up, click on “Allow”

At this point, the computer will do the search, if your word(s) are found in one or more of the Pdf’s you will see

the Pdf(‘s) in the “Results:”

Near the found results, you see a “+” on the left side, click on it to see all the places in that Pdf where the text

is found.

You will see part of the sentence where it is located.

Click on the sentence you want, the Pdf will open automatic and on the page where the word or sentence is

located.

Enjoy.

Leo Tolstoy Quotes, part 2

1. “In the love between a man and a woman there always comes a moment when this love has

reached its zenith—a moment when it is unconscious, unreasoning, and with nothing sensual about it.” ― Leo Tolstoy

2. “The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything.” ― Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina 3. “on which side is truth,—on the side of the thoughts which seem true and well-founded, or on

the side of the lives of others and myself?” ― Leo Tolstoy, Kreutzer Sonata and Family Happiness

4. “knew that the result of a battle is decided not by the orders of a commander in chief, nor the

place where the troops are stationed, nor by the number of cannon or of slaughtered men, but by that intangible force called the spirit of the army, and he watched this force and guided it in as far as that was in his power.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

5. “This is tantamount to saying, "My hand is weak. I cannot draw a straight line,—that is, a line

which will be the shortest line between two given points,—and so, in order to make it more easy for myself, I, intending to draw a straight, will choose for my model a crooked line." The weaker my hand, the greater the need that my model should be perfect.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Kreutzer Sonata and Family Happiness

6. “He understood that feeling of Levin's so well, knew that for Levin all the girls in the world were

divided into two classes: one class included alll the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human failings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class - herself alone - had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

7. “She felt for him with her whole heart, the more because she was pitying him for suffering from

the pain she had caused.” ― Leo Tolstoy 8. “Alexey Alexandorivich had seen nothing striking or improper in the fact that his wife was

sitting with Vronsky at a separate table, in eager conversation with him about something. But he noticed that to the rest of the party this appeared to be something striking and improper. He made up his mind that he must speak of it to his wife.” ― Leo Tolstoy

9. “the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire” ― Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina 10. “Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, that

is, absence of all rational and useful work; frees them from their common human duties, which it replaces by merely conventional duties to the honor of the regiment, the uniform, the flag; and while giving them on the one hand absolute power over other men, also puts them into conditions of servile obedience to those of higher ranks than themselves.” ― Leo Tolstoy

11. “Vronsky is one of the sons of Count Kirill Ivanovitch Vronsky, and one of the finest specimens of the gilded youth of Petersburg.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

12. “Yes, would have been,' he said sadly. 'He's precisely one of those people of whom they say

that they're not meant for this world.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 13. “God is my desire” ― Leo Tolstoy 14. “I think...,' said Anna, playing with the glove she had taken off, 'I think... if there are as many

minds as there are men, there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

15. “No, you're not going to get away from us, and you're not going to be different, you're going to

be the same as you've always been; with doubts, ever lasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to improve, and failures, and continual expectations of happiness that has eluded you and that isn't possible for you.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

16. “All such questions as, for instance,of the cause of failure of crops, of the adherence of certain

tribes to their ancient belief, etc.--questions which, but for the convenient intervention of the official machine are not, and cannot be solved for ages--received full, unhesitating solution.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

17. “Book is a nice companion” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 18. “He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he

guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his soul.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

19. “The greatest human achievement is love.” ― Leo Tolstoy

20. “He considered it his duty to keep up with everything of note that appeared in the intellectual

world. She knew, too, that he was really interested in books dealing with politics, philosophy and theology, that art was utterly foreign to his nature; but in spite of this, or rather, in consequence of it, Aleksey Aleksandrovich never missed anything in the world of art, but

made it his duty to read everything.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

21. “With all my soul I wished to be good, but I was young, passionate and alone, completely

alone when I sought goodness. Every time I tried to express my most sincere desire, which was to be morally good, I met with contempt and ridicule, but as soon as I yielded to low

passions I was praised and encouraged.” ― Leo Tolstoy

22. “He felt he was himself and did not want to be otherwise. He only wanted to be better than he

had been before.” ― Leo Tolstoy

23. “Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over

a precipice, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Aleksey Aleksandrovich

had lived.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

24. “The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite

forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive

or any struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

25. “The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows

God, the nearer will he draw to Him, imitating His goodness, His mercy, and his love of man. Therefore, let him who sees the sun's whole light filling the world, refrain from blaming or despising the superstitious man, who in his own idol sees one ray of that same light. Let him

not despise even the unbeliever who is blind and cannot see the sun at all.” ― Leo Tolstoy

26. “It was very, very early in the morning. You were probably only just awake. Your mother was

asleep in the corner. It was an exquisite morning. I was walking along wondering who it could be in a four-in-hand? It was a splendid set of four horses with bells, and in a second you flashed by, and I saw you at the window—you were sitting like this, holding the strings of your cap in both hands, and thinking awfully deeply about something," he said, smiling. "How I

should like to know what you were thinking about then! Something important?” ― Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina

27. “What a great treasure can be hidden in a small, selected library! A company of the wisest and

the most deserving people from all the civilized countries of the world, for thousands of years, can make the results of their studies and their wisdom available to us. The thought which they might not even reveal to their best friends is written here in clear words for us, people from another century. Yes, we should be grateful for the best books, for the best spiritual

achievements in our lives. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of

Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

28. “But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand. And the worst of it all is that

she's already… it seems as if ill-luck would have it so! Oh, oh! But what, what is to be done?”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

29. “Yes, yes, how was it now?" he thought, going over his dream. "Now, how was it? To be sure!

Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving a dinner on glass tables, and the tables sang, Il mio tesoro—not Il mio tesoro though, but something better, and there were

some sort of little decanters on the table, and they were women, too," he remembered.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

30. “The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

31. “And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his

newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

32. “When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial

desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to

him [/her] who suffers, and try to help him[/her].” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily

Thoughts to Nourish the Soul

33. “The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of

Christianity.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings

34. “Whether he was acting ill or well he did not know, and far from laying down the law about it,

he now avoided talking or thinking about it. Thinking about it led him into doubts and prevented him from seeing what he should and should not do. But when he did not think, but just lived, he unceasingly felt in his soul the presence of an infallible judge deciding which of two actions was the better and which the worse; and as soon as he did what he should not have done he immediately felt this. In this way he lived, not knowing or seeing any possibility

of knowing what he was or why he lived in the world.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

35. “Oh how lovely it is!’ she kept saying. Look what a moon! Oh, how lovely!…I feel like squatting

down on my heels, putting my arms round my knees like this, tight – as tight as can be – and flying away!” Prince Andrei, a serious man who thought he had given up on the pleasures of life, hears her from below, and “all at once such an unexpected turmoil of youthful thoughts

and hopes, contrary to the whole tenor of his life, surged up in his heart.” ― Leo Tolstoy

36. “Nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

37. “With six children Darya Alexandrovna could not be calm. One got sick, another might get

sick, a third lacked something, a fourth showed signs of bad character, and so on, and so on. Rarely, rarely would there be short periods of calm. But these troubles and anxieties were for Darya Alexandrovna the only possible happiness. Had it not been for them, she would have remained alone with her thoughts of her husband, who did not love her. But besides that, however painful the mother's fear of illnesses, the illnesses themselves, and the distress at seeing signs of bad inclinations in her children, the children repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold in the sand, and in her bad moments she saw only griefs, only sand; but there were also good moments, when she saw only joys, only gold.

38. Now, in her country solitude, she was more aware of these joys. Often, looking at them, she

made every possible effort to convince herself that she was mistaken, that as a mother she was partial to her children; all the same, she could not but tell herself that she had lovely children, all six of them, each in a different way, but such as rarely happens -- and she was

happy in them and proud of them.” ― Leo Tolstoy

39. “He entered his wife’s drawing-room as one enters a theatre, was acquainted with everybody,

equally pleased to see everyone and equally indifferent to them all.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and

Peace

40. “Go to the devil, I'm busy.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

41. “Was it not youth, the feeling he experienced now, when, coming out to the edge of the wood

again from the other side, he saw in the bright light of the sun’s slanting rays Varenka’s graceful figure, in a yellow dress and with her basket, walking with a light step past the trunk of

an old birch, and when this impression from the sight of Varenka merged with the sight, which struck him with its beauty, of a yellowing field of oats bathed in the slanting light, and of an old wood far beyond the field, spotted with yellow, melting into the blue distance? He felt his heart wrung with joy. A feeling of tenderness came over him. He felt resolved. Varenka, who had just crouched down to pick a mushroom, stood up with a supple movement and looked over

her shoulder.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

42. “Everything within him and around him seemed confused, senseless, and loathsome. But in

this very loathing for everything around him, Pierre took a sort of irritating pleasure.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, War and Peace

43. “Darya Alexandrovna made no reply. She suddenly felt that she had got far away from Anna;

that there lay between them a barrier of questions on which they could never agree, and about

which it was better not to speak.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

44. “To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not

feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the expectations of those who

knew her.” ― Leo Tolstoy, WAR & PEACE

45. “Even philanthropy did not have the desired effect. The genuine as well as the false paper

money which flooded Moscow lost its value. The French, collecting booty, cared only for gold. Not only was the paper money valueless which Napoleon so graciously distributed to the

unfortunate, but even silver lost its value in relation to gold.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

46. “Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are

essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly.” ― Leo Tolstoy,

War and Peace

47. “People who are given to deliberating on their actions generally find themselves in a serious

frame of mind when it comes to embarking on a journey or changing their mode of life. At such

moments one reviews the past and forms plans for the future.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

48. “I was afraid of life and strove against it, yet I still hoped for something from it.” ― Leo Tolstoy,

A Confession and Other Religious Writings

49. “So those are the direct answers human wisdom gives when it answers the question of life.

"The life of the body is evil and a lie. And therefore the destruction of this life of the body is something good, and we must desire it," says Socrates. "Life is that which ought not be - an evil - and the going into nothingness is the sole good of life," says Schopenhauer. "Everything in the world - folly and wisdom and riches and poverty and happiness and grief - all is vanity and nonsense. Man will die and nothing will remain. And that is foolish," says Solomon. "One must not live with awareness of the inevitability of suffering, weakness, old age, and death - one must free oneself from life, from all possibility of life," says Buddha. And what these powerful intellects said was said and thought and felt by millions and millions of people like

them. And I too thought and felt that.” ― Leo Tolstoy

50. “It's beyond everything what's being done in the district, according to what this doctor tells me. He's a very intelligent fellow. And as I've told you before, I tell you again; it's not right for you not to go to the meetings, and altogether to keep out of the district business. If decent people won't go into it, of course it's bound to go all wrong. We pay the money, and it all goes in salaries, and there are no schools, not district nurses, nor midwives, nor drug-stores ---nothing [...] How can you think it a matter of no importance whether the peasant, whom you love as you assert...dies without help? The ignorant peasant-women starve the children, and the people stagnate in darkness, and are helpless in the hands of every village clerk, while you have at your disposal a means of helping them, and don't help them because to your mind it's of no importance." And Sergey Ivanovitch put before him the alternative: either you are so undeveloped that you can't see all that you can do , or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever IT is, to do it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

51. “I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry

discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly; there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife; I shall still go on scolding her for my own terror, and being remorseful for it; I shall still be as unable to understand with my reason why I pray, and I shall still go on praying; but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

52. “I have hundreds of roubles that I don't know what to do with, and she stands there in a

tattered coat and looks at me timidly," thought Pierre. "And what does she need money for? As id this money can add one hair's breadth to her happiness, her peace of mind? Can anything in the world make her or me less subject to evil and death? Death, which will end everything and which must come today or tomorrow - in a moment, anyhow, compared with eternity.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

53. “Always wetweating-always wetweating!” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 54. “All that exists is One. People only call this One by different names.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Letter

to a Hindu 55. “No honor, no heart, no religion; a corrupt woman. I always knew it and always saw it, though I

tried to deceive myself to spare her," he said to himself. And it actually seemed to him that he always had seen it: he recalled incidents of their past life, in which he had never seen anything wrong before—now these incidents proved clearly that she had always been a corrupt woman. "I made a mistake in linking my life to hers; but there was nothing wrong in my mistake, and so I cannot be unhappy. It's not I that am to blame," he told himself, "but she. But I have nothing to do with her. She does not exist for me… ” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

56. “The hero of my tale,” Tolstoy wrote when he was just twenty-seven, “whom I love with all the

power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all its beauty, who has been, is, and always will be beautiful— is Truth.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

57. “…and in the same way the innumerable people who took part in the war acted in accord with

their personal characteristics, habits, circumstances and aims. They were moved by fear or vanity, rejoiced or were indignant, reasoned, imagining that they knew what they were doing and did it of their own free will, but they all were involuntary tools of history, carrying on a work concealed from them but comprehensible to us. Such is the inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy the less are they free.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

58. “But that’s the aim of civilization: to make everything an enjoyment.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

59. “Just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable wheels and pulleys is

merely a slow and regular movement of the hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human activities of 160,000 Russians and French—all their passions, desires, remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and enthusiasm—was only the loss of the battle of Austerlitz, the so-called battle of the three Emperors—that is to say, a slow movement of the hand on the dial of human history.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

60. “But the more he strained to think, the clearer it became to him that it was undoubtedly so, that

he had actually forgotten, overlooked in his life one small circumstance - that death would come and everything would end, that it was not worth starting anything and that nothing could possibly be done about it. Yes, it was terrible, but it was so.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

61. “But just as the force of gravitation-in itself incomprehensible, though felt by every man- is only

so far understood by us as we know the laws of necessity to which it is subject, so too the force of free will, unthinkable in itself, but recognized by the consciousness of every man, is only so far understood as we know the laws of necessity to which it is subject.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

62. “What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every

individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.” ― Leo Tolstoy

63. “I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you done to me?’—said her

charming, pathetic, dead face.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 64. “For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of

the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession 65. “He spoke that refined French in which our grandparents not only spoke bit thought...” ― Leo

Tolstoy, War and Peace 66. “I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and

not as one would like them to be….” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 67. “there is a kind of business, called Government service, which allows men to treat other men

as things without having human brotherly relations with them; and that they should be so linked together by this Government service that the responsibility for the results of their deeds should not fall on any one of them individually.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

68. “That’s my one desire, to be caught," answered Vronsky, with his serene, good-humored

smile. "If I complain of anything it’s only that I’m not caught enough, to tell the truth. I begin to lose hope.” ― Leo Tolstoy

69. “Freedom! What is freedom for? Happiness is only in loving and wishing her wishes, thinking

her thoughts, that is to say, not freedom at all — that’s happiness!” “But do I know her ideas, her wishes, her feelings?” some voice suddenly whispered to him. The smile died away from his face, and he grew thoughtful. And suddenly a strange feeling came upon him. There came over him a dread and doubt — doubt of everything.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

70. “To sin is a human business, but to justify sins is a devilish business.” ― Leo Tolstoy 71. “How can one feel well when one is suffering in moral sense? Can any sensitive person find

peace of mind nowadays?” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 72. “I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna

Karenina 73. “The most important and necessary human deed, for both doer and recipient, are those of

which he does not see the results.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings 74. “Satan can never be driven out by Satan. Error can never be corrected by error, and evil

cannot be vanquished by evil.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You 75. “Why did it happen this way and not otherwise? Because this is how it happened.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, War and Peace 76. “During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old

comforting and hopeless conclusion: that there was no need for him to start anything, that he had to live out his life without doing evil, without anxiety, and without wishing for anything.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

77. “Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.” ― Leo Tolstoy 78. “Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attai its highest mainfestation only in

conjunction with all kinds of art.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 79. “Lying on his back, he gazed up now into the high, cloudless sky. “Do I not know that that is

infinite space, and that it is not a round arch? But, however I screw up my eyes and strain my sight, I cannot see it not round and not bounded, and in spite of my knowing about infinite space, I am incontestably right when I see a solid blue dome, and more right than when I strain my eyes to see beyond it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

80. “The one thing necessary in life, as in art is to tell the truth.” ― Leo Tolstoy 81. “Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart.” ― Leo

Tolstoy 82. “The old with the old, the young with the young, the hostess by the tea table, on which there

were exactly the same cakes in a silver basket as the Panins had at their soiree - everything was exactly the same as with everyone else.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

83. “The dreadful superstition that it is possible to foresee the future shape of society serves to

justify all kinds of violence in the name of that structure. It is enough for a person to free his thoughts, even temporarily, of this superstition and to look sincerely and seriously at the life of the nation for it to become clear to him that acceptance of the need to oppose evil with violence is nothing other than the justification people give to their habitual and favourite vices: vengeance, avarice, envy, ambition, pride, cowardice and spite.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

84. “All human life, we may say, consists solely of these two activities: (1) bringing one’s activities

into harmony with conscience, or (2) hiding from oneself the indications of conscience in order to be able to continue to live as before.

85. Some do the first, others the second. To attain the first there is but one means: moral enlightenment — the increase of light in oneself and attention to what it shows. To attain the second — to hide from oneself the indications of conscience—there are two means: one external and the other internal. The external means consists in occupations that divert one’s attention from the indications given by conscience; the internal method consists in darkening conscience itself.

86. As a man has two ways of avoiding seeing an object that is before him: either by diverting his

sight to other more striking objects, or by obstructing the sight of his own eyes—just so a man can hide from himself the indications of conscience in two ways: either by the external method of diverting his attention to various occupations, cares, amusements, or games; or by the internal method of obstructing the organ of attention itself. For people of dull, limited moral feeling, the external diversions are often quite sufficient to enable them not to perceive the indications conscience gives of the wrongness of their lives. But for morally sensitive people those means are often insufficient.

87. The external means do not quite divert attention from the consciousness of discord between

one’s life and the demands of conscience. This consciousness hampers one’s life; and in order to be able to go on living as before, people have recourse to the reliable, internal method, which is that of darkening conscience itself by poisoning the brain with stupefying substances.

88. One is not living as conscience demands, yet lacks the strength to reshape one’s life in accord

with its demands. The diversions which might distract attention from the consciousness of this discord are insufficient, or have become stale, and so—in order to be able to live on, disregarding the indications conscience gives of the wrongness of their life—people (by poisoning it temporarily) stop the activity of the organ through which conscience manifests itself, as a man by covering his eyes hides from himself what he does not wish to see.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves?: And Other Writings

89. “The struggle for existence and hatred are the only things that unite people.” ― Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina 90. “And just as the conclusions of the astronomers would have been vain and uncertain if not

founded on observations of the seen heavens, in relation to a single meridian and a single horizon, so would my conclusions be vain and uncertain if not founded on that conception of right, which has been and will be always alike for all men, which has been revealed to me as a Christian, and which can always be trusted in my soul. The question of other religions and their relations to Divinity I have no right to decide, and no possiblity of deciding.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

91. “So that is what my dream meant! Pashenka is what I ought to have been but failed to be. I

lived for men on the pretext of living for God, while she lived for God imagining that she lives 92. for men. Yes, one good deed--a cup of water given without thought of reward--is worth more

than any benefit I imagined I was bestowing on people. But after all was there not some share 93. of sincere desire to serve God?' he asked himself, and the answer was: 'Yes, there was, but it

was all soiled and overgrown by desire for human praise. Yes, there is no God for the man who

94. lives, as I did, for human praise. I will now seek Him!” ― Leo Tolstoy, Father Sergius 95. “Salvation does not lie in the rituals and profession of faith, but in a lucid understanding of the

meaning of one’s life.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings 96. “If once we begin judging and arguing about everything, nothing sacred will be left!” ― Leo

Tolstoy, War and Peace

97. “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ― Leo Tolstoy 98. “There are people who, on meeting a successful ribal, no matter in what, are at once disposed

to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. there are people, on the ohter hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.” ― Leo Tolstoy

99. “Everything is indefinite, misty, and transient; only virtue is clear, and it cannot be destroyed by

any force. —MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

100. “Love, true love, love that denies itself and transfers itself to another, is the awakening within

oneself of the highest universal principle of life. But it is only true love and affords all the happiness it can give when it is simply love, free from anything personal, from the smallest drop of personal bias towards its object. And such love can only be felt for one’s enemy, for those who hate and offend. Thus, the injunction to love not those who love us, but those who hate us, is not an exaggeration, nor an indication of possible exclusions, but simply a directive for that opportunity and possibility of receiving the supreme bliss that love can give.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

101. “one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and now I do believe in

it. Let the dead bury their dead, but while one has life one must live and be happy!” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

102. “The two girls used to meet several times a day, and every time they met, Kitty's eyes said:

"Who are you? What are you? Are you really the exquisite creature I imagine you to be? But for goodness' sake don't suppose," her eyes added, "that I would force my acquaintance on you, I simply admire you and like you."

103. "I like you too, and you're very, very sweet. And I should like you better still, if I had time,"

answered the eyes of the unknown girl.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 104. “But does it make any difference now?" he thought. "And what will be there, and what has

been done here? Why was I so sorry to part with life? There was something in this life I didn't and still don't understand...” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

105. “What does it mean that thirty thousand men, not athletes but rather weak and ordinary

people, have subdued two hundred million vigorous, clever, capable, and freedom-loving people? Do not the figures make it clear that it is not the English who have enslaved the Indians, but the Indians who have enslaved themselves?” ― Leo Tolstoy

106. “Why does everything exist that exists, and why do I exist?” “Because it exists.” ― Leo Tolstoy 107. “He wants to prove to me that his love for me must not interfere with his freedom” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 108. “The question how to live had hardly begun to grow a little clearer to him, when a new,

insoluble question presented itself—death.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 109. “History, that is, the unconscious, common, swarm life of mankind uses every moment of the

life of kings as an instrument for its own ends” ― Leo Tolstoy 110. “The enemy stopped shooting, and that strict, menacing, inaccessible, and elusive line that

separates two enemy armies became all the more clearly felt. “One step beyond that line,

reminiscent of the line separating the living from the dead, and it’s the unknown, suffering, and death. And what is there? who is there? there, beyond this field, and the tree, and the roof lit by the sun? No one knows, and you would like to know; and you’re afraid to cross that line, and would like to cross it; and you know that sooner or later you will have to cross it and find out what is there on the other side of the line, as you will inevitably find out what is there on the other side of death. And you’re strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and surrounded by people just as strong and excitedly animated.” So, if he does not think it, every man feels who finds himself within sight of an enemy, and this feeling gives a particular brilliance and joyful sharpness of impression to everything that happens in those moments.” ― Leo Tolstoy

111. “My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time.

This belief was expressed by the word "progress." At the time it seemed to me that this word had meaning. Like any living individual, I was tormented by questions of how to live better. I still had not understood that in answering that one must live according to progress, I was talking just like a person being carried along in a boat by the waves and the wind; without really answering, such a person replies to the only important question-"Where are we to steer?"-by saying, "We are being carried somewhere.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

112. “No sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that's a universal

principle, a philosophical principle” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 113. “They were moved by fear or vanity, rejoiced or were indignant, reasoned, imagining that they

knew what they were doing and did it of their own free will, but they all were involuntary tools of history, carrying on a work concealed from them but comprehensible to us. Such is the inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy the less are they free.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

114. “and new conditions of existence will spring up, to which other men will grow just as

accustomed, and I shall not know about them, for I shall be no more!” ― Leo Tolstoy 115. “Each believed that the life he himself led was the only real life and the life led by his friend

was nothing but an illusion.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 116. “But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in

it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else.” ― Leo Tolstoy

117. “All his life the example of a syllogism he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic - "Caius is a man,

men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal" - had seemed to him to be true only in relation to Caius the man, man in general, and it was quite justified , but he wasn't Caius and he wasn't man in general, and he had always been something quite, quite special apart from all other beings; he was Vanya, with Mama, with Papa, with Mitya and Volodya, with his toys and the coachman, with Nyanya, then with Katenka, with all the joys, sorrows, passions of childhood, boyhood, youth. Did Caius know the smell of the striped leather ball Vanya loved so much?: Did Caius kiss his mother's hand like that and did the silken folds of Caius's mother's dress rustle like that for him? Was Caius in love like that? Could Caius chair a session like that? And Caius is indeed mortal and it's right that he should die, but for me, Vanya, Ivan Ilych, with all my feelings and thoughts - for me it's quite different. And it cannot be that I should die. It would be too horrible.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

118. “Why ask? Why doubt what you cannot help knowing? Why use words when words cannot

express what one feels?” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 119. “Then she thought of how life could still be happy, and how tormentingly she loved and hated

him, and how terribly her heart was pounding.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

120. “Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 121. “If we allow that human life can be governed by reason, the possibility of life is annihilated” ―

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 122. “Speak to her now? But that's just why I'm afraid to speak—because I'm happy now, happy in

hope, anyway… . And then?… . But I must! I must! I must! Away with weakness!” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

123. “I ask only one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now; but if even that is

impossible, command me to disappear and I will do it. -Vronsky” ― Leo Tolstoy 124. “When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling

of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hostility to this world, came over him...It was all drowned in the sea of cheerful common labor. God had given the day, God had given the strength. Both day and strength had been devoted to labour and in that lay the reward...Levin had often admired this life, had often experienced a feeling of envy for the people who lived this life, but that day for the first time...the thought came clearly to Levin that it was up to him to change that so burdensome, idle, artificial and individual life he lived into this laborious, pure and common, lovely life.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

125. “When in doubt, my dear fellow, do nothing.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 126. “No, pardon me, I consider myself and people like me aristocrats: people who can point back

to three or four honourable generations of their family, all with a high standard of education (talent and intelligence are a different matter), who have never cringed before anyone, never depended on anyone, but have lived as my father and my grandfather did. I know many such. You consider it mean for me to count the trees in my wood while you give Ryabinin thirty thousand roubles; but you will receive a Goernment grant and I don't know what other award, and I shan't, so I value what is mine by birth and labour... We - and not those who only manage to exist by the bounty of the mighty of this world, and who can be bought for a piece of silver - are the aristocrats. -Levin” ― Leo Tolstoy

127. “The history of mankind is crowded with evidences proving that physical coercion is not

adapted to moral regeneration, and that the sinful dispositions of men can be subdued only by love; that evil can be exterminated only by good; that it is not safe to rely upon the strength of an arm to preserve us from harm; that there is great security in being gentle, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy; that it is only the meek who shall inherit the earth; for those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You

128. “But really, why should you distress yourself? Whoever stirs up the past — out with his eye!

Who is not a sinner before God and to blame before the Tsar, as the saying is?” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Devil

129. “Never to the end of his life could he understand goodness, beauty, or truth, or the significance

of his actions which were too contrary to goodness and truth, too remote from everything human, for him ever to be able to grasp their meaning. He could not disavow his actions, belauded as they were by half the world, and so he had to repudiate truth, goodness, and all humanity.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

130. “He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor

of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes—

according to the fashion—but for that very reason seem the most vehement partisans” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

131. “Anna took a knife and fork in her beautiful, white, ring-adorned hands and began to

demonstrate. She obviously could see that her explanation could not make anything understood, but, knowing that her speech was pleasant and her hands were beautiful, she went on explaining.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

132. “Medieval Italian life had recently become so fascinating for Vronsky that he even began

wearing his hat and a wrap thrown over his shoulder in a medieval fashion, which was very becoming to him.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

133. “there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—

activity and intelligence.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 134. “The only certain happiness in life is to live for others.” ― Leo Tolstoy 135. “He was always in a hurry to get where he was not.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 136. “The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs

reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

137. “mentioning 'our days' as people of limited intelligence are fond of doing, imagining that they

have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of 'our days' and that human characteristics change with the times...” ― Leo Tolstoy

138. “If there is something great in you, it will not appear on your first call. It will not appear and

come to you easily, without any work and effort. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

139. “Such is the inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy

the less are they free.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

140. “All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.” ― Leo

Tolstoy 141. “And do you know, there's less charm in life, when one thinks of death, but there's more

peace.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 142. “[T]he social relationship of young women to young men … now seemed to Kitty like

ignominious exposure of merchandise to be taken by the highest bidder.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

143. “He looked at people as if they were things. A nervous young man across from him...came to

hate him for that look. The young man lit a cigarette from his, tried talking to him, and even jostled him, to let him feel that he was not a thing but a human being, but Vronsky went on looking at him as at a lampost, and the young man grimaced, feeling that he was losing his self-possession under the pressure of this non-recognition of himself as a human being...” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

144. “It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed itself beyond her will, now in the brightness of her glance, now in her smile. She deliberately extinguished the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in a barely noticeable smile.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

145. “We will never arrive to the notion of total freedom, that is, the absence of cause” ― Leo

Tolstoy, War and Peace 146. “As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields” ― Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe 147. “Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as lovers of music do when they hear a

false note.” ― Leo Tolstoy 148. “But all profit that is out of proportion to the labor expended is dishonest.” ― Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina 149. “Paulucci and Michaud both attacked Wolzogen simultaneously in French. Armfeldt addressed

Pfuel in German. Toll explained to Volkonski in Russian. Prince Andrew listened and observed in silence.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

150. “The prince enjoyed unusually good health even among princes; both by gymnastic exercises

and by taking good care of his body he had brought himself to such a state of physical fitness that in spite of the excesses he indulged in when enjoying himself, he looked as fresh as a big shiny green Dutch cucumber.” ― Leo Tolstoy

151. “Whatever answers faith gives, regardless of which faith, or to whom the answers are given,

such answers always give an infinite meaning to the finite existence of man; a meaning that is not destroyed by suffering, deprivation or death. This means that only in faith can we find the meaning and possibility of life. I realized that the essential meaning of faith lies not only in the ‘manifestations of things unseen’, and so on, or in revelation (this is only a description of one of the signs of faith); nor is it simply the relationship between man and God (it is necessary to define faith, then God, and not God through faith); nor is it an agreement with what one has been told, although this is what faith is commonly understood to be. Faith is a knowledge of the meaning of human life, the consequence of which is that man does not kill himself but lives. Faith is the force of life. If a man lives, then he must believe in something. If he did not believe that there was something he must live for he would not live. If he does not see and comprehend the illusion of the finite he will believe in the finite. If he does understand the illusion of the finite, he is bound to believe in the infinite. Without faith it is impossible to live.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

152. “I only know this, that she thanks God for all her tribulations, and, above all, because her

husband is dead.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 153. “i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and

the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. i felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life. i suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of time.” ― Leo Tolstoy

154. “Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.” ― Leo Tolstoy, On

the Significance of Science and Art 155. “He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty

of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and truth, and at the same time seeing too

clearly the evil and falsity of life to be capable of taking a serious part in it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

156. “In time, things fall its places for a man who know how to wait” ― Leo Tolstoy 157. “Never, never marry, my friend. Here’s my advice to you: don’t marry until you can tell yourself

that you’ve done all you could, and until you’ve stopped loving the woman you’ve chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you’ll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you’re old and good for nothing … Otherwise all that’s good and lofty in you will be lost. It will all go on trifles. Yes, yes, yes! Don’t look at me with such astonishment. If you expect something from yourself in the future, then at every step you’ll feel that it’s all over for you, it’s all closed, except the drawing room, where you’ll stand on the same level as a court flunkey and an idiot … ” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

158. “But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his

brother, the more and more frequently the thought struck him that this faculty of working for the public good, of which he felt himself utterly devoid, was possibly not so much a quality as a lack of something —not a lack of good, honest, noble desires and tastes, but a lack of vital force, of what is called heart, of that impulse which drives a man to choose someone out of the innumerable paths of life, and to care only for that one.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

159. “During that summer Nekhludoff experienced that exaltation which youth comes to know not

by the teaching of others, but when it naturally begins to recognize the beauty and importance of life, and man's serious place in it; when it sees the possibility of infinite perfection of which the world is capable, and devotes itself to that endeavor, not only with the hope, but with a full conviction of reaching that perfection which it imagines possible.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Awakening The Resurrection

160. “The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an

extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.” ― Leo Tolstoy

161. “Alexei Alexandrovich stood face to face with life, confronting the possibility of his wife loving

someone else besides him, and it was this that seemed so senseless and incomprehensible to him, because it was life itself. All his lief Alexei Alexandrovich had lived and worked in spheres of services that dealt with reflections of life. And each time he had encountered life itself, he had drawn back from it. Now he experienced a feeling similar to what a man would feel who was calmly walking across a bridge over an abyss and suddenly saw that the bridge had been taken down and below him was the bottomless deep. This bottomless deep was life itself, the bridge the artificial life that Alexei Alexandrovich had lived.” ― Leo Tolstoy

162. “If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars,” he said.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

163. “Peaceful with six children Darya Alexandrova could not be...Rare indeed were the brief

periods of peace...hard though it was for the mother to bear the dread of illness, the illnesses themselves, and the grief of seeing signs of evil propensities in her children--the children themselves were even now repaying her in small joys for her sufferings. Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see

nothing but the pain, nothing but sand; but there were good moments too when she saw nothing but the joy, nothing but gold.

164. Now in the solitude of the country, she began to be more and more frequently aware of those

joys. Often, looking at them, she would make every possible effort to persuade herself that she was mistaken, that she as a mother was partial to her children. All the same, she could not help saying to herself that she had charming children, all six of them in different ways, but a set of children such as is not often to be met with, and she was happy in them, and proud of them.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

165. “You can't understand it; for you men, who are free and make your own choice, it's always

clear whom you love. But a girl's in a position of suspense, with all a woman's or maiden's modesty, a girl who sees you men from afar, who takes everything on trust,— a girl may have, and often has, such a feeling that she cannot tell what to say.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

166. “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.” ― Leo Tolstoy

167. “And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly

held those views on all these subjects which were held by the majority and by his paper, and he only changed them when the majority changed them—or, more strictly speaking, he did not change them, but they imperceptibly changed of themselves within him.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

168. “With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better,” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 169. “Next day at the review the Tsar asked Prince Andrey where he desired to serve; and

Bolkonsky ruined his chances for ever in the court world by asking to be sent to the front, instead of begging for a post in attendance on the Tsar's person.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

170. “This is the divine law of life: that only virtue stands firm. All the rest is nothing. —

PYTHAGORAS” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

171. “My reasoning proceeded in the following manner. "Like man and his power of reason," I said

to myself, "the nowledge of faith arises from a mysterious origin. This origin is God, the source of the human mind and body. Just as God has bestowed my body upon me a bit at a time, so has he imparted to me my reason and understand­ing of life; thus the stages in the development of this understanding cannot be false. Everything that people truly believe must be true; it may be expressed in differing ways, but it cannot be a lie. Therefore, if I take it to be a lie, this merely indicates that I have failed to understand it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

172. “When he was dressed, Stepan Arkadyevitch sprinkled some scent on himself, pulled down

his shirt-cuffs, distributed into his pockets his cigarettes, pocketbook, matches, and watch with its double chain and seals, and shaking out his handkerchief, feeling himself clean, fragrant, healthy, and physically at ease, in spite of his unhappiness, he walked with a slight swing on each leg into the dining-room, where coffee was already waiting for him, and beside the coffee, letters and papers from the office.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

173. “Levin tried to drink a little coffee, and put a piece of roll into his mouth, but his mouth could do

nothing with it. He took the piece out of his mouth, put on his overcoat and went out to walk about again.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

174. “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed

any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.” ― Leo Tolstoy

175. “It was indeed terrible. And to rid myself of the terror I wished to kill myself. I experienced

terror at what awaited me -- knew that that terror was even worse than the position I was in, but still I could not patiently await the end. However convincing the argument might be that in any case some vessel in my heart would give way, or something would burst and all would be over, I could not patiently await that end. The horror of darkness was too great, and I wished to free myself from it as quickly as possible by noose or bullet. that was the feeling which drew me most strongly towards suicide.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

176. “Every heart has its own skeletons, as the English say.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 177. “It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a

game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.” ― Leo Tolstoy

178. “Only Anna was sad. She knew that now, from Dolly's departure, no one again would stir up

within her soul the feelings that had been roused by their conversation. It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and that that part of her soul would quickly be smothered in the life she was leading.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

179. “We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that

what is new and good begins.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 180. “The egoist feels lonely, surrounded by threatening and alien events; all his desires are sunk

in his own concerns. A kind person lives in a world of beneficent events, whose goodness matches his own. —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

181. “A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body

as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world and therefore, as an Englishman, always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people. A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. The German’s self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth—science—which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

182. “Improve your kindness by exercising your intellect, and improve your intellect by exercising

your kindness and love.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

183. “It showed him the mistake men make in picturing to themselves happiness as the realization

of their desires.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 184. “Stepan Arkadyevitch was on familiar terms with almost all his acquaintances, and called

almost all of them by their Christian names: old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, merchants, and adjutant-generals, so that many of his intimate chums were to be found at the

extreme ends of the social ladder, and would have been very much surprised to learn that they had, through the medium of Oblonsky, something in common. He was the familiar friend of everyone with whom he took a glass of champagne, and he took a glass of champagne with everyone, and when in consequence he met any of his disreputable chums, as he used in joke to call many of his friends, in the presence of his subordinates, he well knew how, with his characteristic tact, to diminish the disagreeable impression made on them. Levin was not a disreputable chum, but Oblonsky, with his ready tact, felt that Levin fancied he might not care to show his intimacy with him before his subordinates, and so he made haste to take him off into his room.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

185. “When you carry your burden, you should know that it is good for you to have it. Make the best

of this burden and take from it everything which is necessary for your intellectual life, as your stomach takes from food everything necessary for your flesh, or as fire burns brighter after you put some wood on it. —MARCUS AURELIUS” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

186. “Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and

beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the nape of her neck, with a sunken, thin face and large, startled eyes, which looked prominent from the thinness of her face, was standing among a litter of all sorts of things scattered all over the room, before an open bureau, from which she was taking something. Hearing her husband's steps, she stopped, looking towards the door, and trying assiduously to give her features a severe and contemptuous expression. She felt she was afraid of him, and afraid of the coming interview. She was just attempting to do what she had attempted to do ten times already in these last three days—to sort out the children's things and her own, so as to take them to her mother's—and again she could not bring herself to do this; but now again, as each time before, she kept saying to herself, "that things cannot go on like this, that she must take some step" to punish him, put him to shame, avenge on him some little part at least of the suffering he had caused her. She still continued to tell herself that she should leave him, but she was conscious that this was impossible; it was impossible because she could not get out of the habit of regarding him as her husband and loving him. Besides this, she realized that if even here in her own house she could hardly manage to look after her five children properly, they would be still worse off where she was going with them all. As it was, even in the course of these three days, the youngest was unwell from being given unwholesome soup, and the others had almost gone without their dinner the day before. She was conscious that it was impossible to go away; but, cheating herself, she went on all the same sorting out her things and pretending she was going.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

187. “Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all

the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.” ― Leo Tolstoy

188. “A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he

thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.― Leo Tolstoy 189. “All great literature is one of two stories: either a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes

to town.” ― Leo Tolstoy 190. “...she still found no words in which she could express the complexity of her feelings; indeed,

she could not even find thoughts in which she could clearly think out all that was in her soul.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

191. “What right had I to imagine that she would wish to unite her life with mine? Who and What am

I? A man of no account, wanted by no one and of no use to anyone.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna

Karenina

192. “Some mathematician has said that enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in the finding it.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

193. “To accept the dignity of another person is an axiom. It has nothing to do with subduing,

supporting, or giving charity to other people.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily

Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

194. “A moment's pain can be a lifetime's gain.” ― Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does A Man

Need?

195. “Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself,

there lay only suffering, death, and eternal oblivion, he had concluded that to live under such conditions was impossible; that one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem

to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.” ― Leo Tolstoy

196. “Once there is no freedom, there is no man” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

197. “The whole of that day Anna spent at home, that's to say at the Oblonskys', and received no

one, though some of her acquaintances had already heard of her arrival, and came to call; the same day. Anna spent the whole morning with Dolly and the children. She merely sent a brief note to her brother to tell him that he must not fail to dine at home. "Come, God is merciful,"

she wrote.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

198. “Since the moment when, at the sight of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time

looked at the questions of life and death in the light of the new convictions, as he called them, which between the ages of twenty and thirty-four had imperceptibly replaced the beliefs of his childhood and youth, he had been less horrified by death than by life without the least knowledge of whence it came, what it is for, why, and what it is, Organisms, their destruction, the indestructibility of matter, the law of the conservation of energy, development—the terms that had superseded these beliefs—were very useful for mental purposes; but they gave no guidance for life, and Levin suddenly felt like a person who has exchanged a thick fur coat for a muslin garment and who, being out in the frost for the first time, becomes clearly convinced, not by arguments, but with the whole of his being, that he is as good as naked and that he

must inevitably perish miserably.” ― Leo Tolstoy

199. “I have learned that men live not by selfishness, but by love.” ― Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live

by and Other Tales 200. (He, like all people who live with nature and know want, was patient and could wait calmly for

hours, even days, without feeling either alarm or vexation)” ― Leo Tolstoy, Master and Man

201. “Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.” ― Leo Tolstoy

202. “I rejoice in what I have, and don't fret for what I haven't,” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

203. “Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but

were a way of thinking that made the knowledge he needed impossible.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna

Karenina

204. “Everyone thinks of changing the world,but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy,

War and Peace 205. “I find it difficult now to recall and understand the dreams which then filled my imagination.

Even when I can recall them, I find it hard to believe that my dreams were just like that: they were so strange and so remote from life.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Great Short Works

206. “Send anyone who preaches war to a special frontline legion -into the assault, into the attack,

ahead of everyone.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 207. “I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be

necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgements must be based on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

208. “Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 209. “The scent of flowers grew stronger and came from all sides; the grass was drenched with

dew; a nightingale struck up in a lilac bush close by and then stopped on hearing our voices; the starry sky seemed to come down lower over our heads.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Great Short Works

210. “You are in despair, because you wish to live for your own happiness.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Where

Love Is, There God Is Also 211. “If you once realize that to-morrow, if not to-day, you will die and nothing will be left of you,

everything becomes insignificant!” ― Leo Tolstoy 212. “Indeed, since ancient times, when the life of which I do know something began, people who

knew the arguments concerning the vanity of life, the arguments that revealed to me its meaninglessness, lived nonetheless, bringing to life a meaning of their own. Since the time when people somehow began to live, this meaning of life has been with them, and they have led this life up to my own time. Everything that is in me and around me is the fruit of their knowledge of life. The very tools of thought by which I judge life and condemn it were created not by me but by them. I myself was born, educated and have grown up thanks to them. They dug out the iron, taught us how to cut the timber, tamed the cattle and the horses, showed us how to sow crops and live together; they brought order to our lives. They taught me how to think and to speak. I am their offspring, nursed by them, reared by them, taught by them; I think according to their thoughts, their words, and now I have proved to them that it is all meaningless! "Something is wrong here," I said to myself. "I must have made a mistake somewhere.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

213. “War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within

themselves.” ― Leo Tolstoy

214. “He thought himself a shining light, and the more he felt this the more he was conscious of a wakening, a dying down of the divine light of truth that shone within him.

215. 'In how far is what I do for God and in how far it is for men?' That was the question that

insistently tormented him and to which he was not so much unable to give himself an answer unable to face the answer.

216. In the depth of his soul he felt that the devil had substituted an activity for men in place of his

former activity for God.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Father Sergius 217. “But though towards the end of the battle the men felt all the horror of their actions, though

they would have been glad to cease, some unfathomable, mysterious force still led them on, and the artillerymen-the third of them left-soaked with sweat, grimed with powder and blood, and panting with weariness, still brought the charges, loaded, aimed, and lighted the match; and the cannon balls flew as swiftly and cruelly from each side and crushed human flesh, and kept up the fearful work, which was done not at the will of men, but at the will of Him who sways men and worlds.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

218. “The highest wisdom is founded not on reason only, not on those worldly sciences, of physics,

history, chemistry, etc., into which knowledge of the intellect is divided. The highest wisdom is one. The highest wisdom knows but one science-the science of the whole, the science that explains the whole creation and the place of man in it. To instil this science into one's soul, it is needful to purify and renew one's inner man, and so, before one can know, one must believe and be made perfect. And for the attainment of these aims there has been put into our souls the light of God, called conscience.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

219. “Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all.

If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

220. “War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that and

not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game. As it is now, war is the favorite pastime of the idle and frivolous. The military calling is the most highly honored.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

221. “...she felt that the diving image of Mme Stahl that she had carried in her soul for a whole

month had vanished irretrievably...And by no effort of imagination could she bring back the former Mme Stahl.” ― Leo Tolstoy

222. “I know a gallant steed by tokens sure, And by his eyes I know a youth in love,” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 223. “Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing themselves.” ― Leo

Tolstoy 224. “had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves,” ― Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina 225. “I wrote: teaching what was for me the only truth, namely, that one should live so as to have

the best for oneself and one's family.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

226. “intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

227. “Before any definite step can be taken in a household, there must be either complete division

or loving accord between husband and wife.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 228. “Then these moments of perplexity began to recur oftener and oftener, and always in the

same form. They were always expressed by the questions: What is it for? What does it lead to?” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

229. “...that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 230. “The liberal party said, or rather allowed it to be understood, that religion is only a curb to keep

in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service without his legs aching from standing up, and could never make out what was the object of all the terrible and high-flown language about another world when life might be so very amusing in this world.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

231. “And the light by which she had been reading the book of life, blazed up suddenly, illuminating

those pages that had been dark, then flickered, grew dim. and went out forever.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

232. “If string isn't tight and you try to break it, it's very hard to do. But tighten it to the utmost and

put just the weight of your finger on it, and it will break.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 233. “It was as though her nature were so brimming over with something that against her will it

showed itself now in the flash of her eyes, and now in her smile. Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

234. “It's really ludicrous; her object is doing good; she a Christian, yet she's always angry; and she

always has enemies, and always enemies in the name of Christianity and doing good.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

235. “The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that

impedes progress.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 236. “But why do his ears stick out so oddly? Did he have his hair cut?” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna

Karenina 237. “Laws of motion of any kind only become comprehensible to man when he can examine

arbitrarily selected units of that motion. But at the same time it is this arbitrary division of continuous motion into discontinuous units which give rise to a large proportion of human error.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

238. “Self esteem,' said Levin, cut to the quick by his brother's words, 'is something I do not

understand. If I had been told at the university that others understood integral calculus and I did not — there you have self esteem. But here one should first be convinced that one needs to have a certain ability in these matters and, chiefly, that they are all very important.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

239. “If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing

would come of it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

240. “But there was a second kind of people, the real ones, to which they all belonged, for whom

the main thing was to be elegant, beautiful, generous, bold, and gay, to give way unblushingly to every passion and to laugh at everything else.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

241. “In the depths of his soul Ivan Ilyich knew that he was dying... he simply did not, he could not

possibly understand it. The example of a syllogism he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic - Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal-- had seemed to him all his life to be correct only in relation to Caius, but by no means himself. For the man Caius, man in general, it was perfectly correct; but he was not Caius and not man in general, he had always been quite, quite separate from all other human beings...And Caius is indeed mortal, and it's right that he die, but for me, Vanya, Ivan Ilyich, with all my feelings and thoughts-- for me it's another matter. And it cannot be that I should die. It would be too terrible. So it felt to him.” ― Leo Tolstoy

242. “She did not now say those former terrible words to him, but looked simply, merrily, and

inquisitively at him. And Prince Andrew, crossing his arms behind him, long paced the room, now frowning, now smiling, as he reflected on those irrational, inexpressible thoughts, secret as a crime, which altered his whole life and were connected with Pierre, with fame, with the girl at the window, the oak, and woman’s beauty and love. And if anyone came into his room at such moments he was particularly cold, stern, and above all unpleasantly logical.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

243. “Brought up with an idea of God, a Christian, my whole life filled with the spiritual blessings

Christianity has given me, full of them, and living on those blessings, like the children I did not understand them, and destroy, that is try to destroy, what I live by. And as soon as an important moment of life comes, like the children when they are cold and hungry, I turn to Him, and even less than the children when their mother scolds them for their childish mischief, do I feel that my childish efforts at wanton madness are reckoned against me.

244. "Yes, what I know, I know not by reason, but it has been given to me, revealed to me, and I

know it with my heart, by faith in the chief thing taught by the church. 245. "The church! the church!" Levin repeated to himself. He turned over on the other side, and

leaning on his elbow, fell to gazing into the distance at a herd of cattle crossing over to the river.

246. "But can I believe in all the church teaches?" he thought, trying himself, and thinking of

everything that could destroy his present peace of mind. Itentionally he recalled all those doctrines of the church which had always seemed most strange and had always been a stumbling block to him.

247. "The Creation? But how did I explain existence? By existence? By nothing? The devil and sin.

But how do I explain evil?... The atonement?... 248. "But I know nothing, nothing, and I can know nothing but what has been told to me and all

men." 249. And it seemed to him that there was not a single article of faith of the church which could

destroy the chief thing--faith in God, in goodness, as the one goal of man's destiny. 250. Under every article of faith of the church could be put the faith in the service of truth instead of

one's desires. And each doctrine did not simply leave that faith unshaken, each doctrine seemed essential to complete that great miracle, continually manifest upon earth, that made it possible for each man and millions of different sorts of men, wise men and imbeciles, old men

and children--all men, peasants, Lvov, Kitty, beggars and kings to understand perfectly the same one thing, and to build up thereby that life of the soul which alone is worth living, and which alone is precious to us.

251. Lying on his back, he gazed up now into the high, cloudless sky. "Do I not know that that is

infinite space, and that it is not a round arch? But, however I screw up my eyes and strain my sight, I cannot see it not round and not bounded, and in spite of my knowing about infinite space, I am incontestably right when I see a solid blue dome, and more right than when I strain my eyes to see beyond it."

252. Levin ceased thinking, and only, as it were, listened to mysterious voices that seemed talking

joyfully and earnestly within him. 253. "Can this be faith?" he thought, afraid to believe in his happiness. "My God, I thank Thee!" he

said, gulping down his sobs, and with both hands brushing away the tears that filled his eyes.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

254. “I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guessed of what it consisted. The truth was that

life is meaningless. I” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings 255. “It is impossible to imagine to oneself a man who has no freedom otherwise as deprived of life”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 256. “At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal power in the

human soul: one very reasonably tells a man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of escaping it; the other, still more reasonably, says that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger, since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general course of events, and it is therefore better to disregard what is painful till it comes, and to think about what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally listens to the first voice, but in society to the second.” ― Leo Tolstoy, WAR & PEACE

257. “no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract

questions,” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 258. “be tempted by so easy a way of ending my life. I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared

life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it. And all this befell” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

259. “I think ... if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love

as there are hearts.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 260. “How sweet he is!” said Countess Marya, looking at the baby and playing with him. “This is

what I don’t understand, Nicolas,” she turned to her husband. “How is it you don’t understand the charm of these charming little miracles?” “I just don’t, I can’t,” said Nikolai, looking at the baby with a cold gaze. “A piece of meat.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

261. “But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to

live together all their lives and have, by the second month, come to loathe the sight of each other, want to get divorced and yet go on living together, it usually ends in that terrible hell that drives them to drink, makes them shoot themselves, kill and poison each other” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

262. “[looked at other peoples lives and said,] 'How can one let it come to that? How can one not

undo this ugly situation?' But now, when the disaster had fallen on his head, he not only did

not think of how to undo the situation, but did not want to know about it at all.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

263. “Fate acts with reason. And we are always passing judgment; that's not right, and this doesn't

suit us. Our happiness, my dear, is like water in a drag-net; you drag, and it is all puffed up, but pull it out and there's nothing.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

264. “He did not in his heart respect his mother, and without acknowledging it to himself, he did not

love her, though in accordance with the ideas of the set in which he lived, and with his own education, he could not have conceived of any behavior to his mother not in the highest degree respectful and obedient, and the more externally obedient and respectful his behavior, the less in his heart he respected and loved her.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

265. “I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself

and had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

266. “French failed at Borodino because Napoleon had a cold in the head, and that if it had not

been for this cold the orders he gave before and during the battle would have been still more full of genius, and Russia would have been annihilated and the face of the world would have been changed. To historians who believe that Russia was shaped by the will of one man – Peter the Great – and that France was transformed from a republic into an empire and French armies marched into Russia at the will of one man – Napoleon – the argument that Russia remained a power because Napoleon had a bad cold on the 26th of August may seem logical and convincing. If it had depended on Napoleon’s” ― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

267. “Kings are the slaves of history. History, that is, the unconscious, swarmlike life of mankind,

uses every moment of a king’s life as an instrument for its purposes.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

268. “Nekhludoff laughed as he compared himself to the ass in the fable who, while deciding which

of the two bales of hay before him he should have his meal from, starved himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Awakening The Resurrection

269. “One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not

to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

270. “If the good has a cause, it is no longer the good; if it has a consequence - a reward - it is also

not the good. Therefore the good is outside the chain of cause and effect.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

271. “Those who don’t believe in the spiritual foundations of their faith, who only pay lip service to

the outer shell of their religious rituals, cannot be tolerant of others.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

272. “Thus once more I found confirmed on all sides the simple, clear, important, and practical

meaning of the words of Jesus. Once more, in place of an obscure sentence, I had found a clear, precise, important, and practical rule: To make no distinction between compatriots and foreigners, and to abstain from all the results of such distinction,—from hostility towards foreigners, from wars, from all participation in war, from all preparations for war; to establish with all men, of whatever nationality, the same relations granted to compatriots. All this was so simple and so clear, that I” ― Leo Tolstoy, My Religion

273. “If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars,” he said. “And that would be splendid,” said Pierre. Prince Andrew smiled ironically. “Very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about. . . .” “Well, why are you going to the war?” asked Pierre. “What for? I don’t know. I must. Besides that I am going . . .” He paused. “I am going because the life I am leading here does not suit me!” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

274. “Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation - a differential of history (that is,

the common tendencies of men) - and arriving at the art of integration (finding the sum of the infinitesimals) can we hope to discover the laws of history.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

275. “feeling consolation in the sense that he had found to which division of regulating principles

this new circumstance could be properly referred.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 276. “Freedom? What is the good of freedom? Happiness consists only in loving and desiring: in

wishing her wishes and in thinking her thoughts, which means having no freedom whatever; that is happiness!” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

277. “There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the

most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day—that is, forget oneself.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

278. “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,” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

279. “Vronsky meanwhile, despite the full realization of what he had desired for so long, was not

fully happy. He soon felt that the realization of his desire had given him only a grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. It showed him the eternal error people make in imagining that happiness is in the realization of desires.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

280. “Imagine a flock of pigeons in a corn field. Imagine that ninety-nine of them, instead of pecking

the corn they need and using it as they need it, start to collect all they can into one big heap. Imagine that they do not leave much corn for themselves, but save this big heap of corn on behalf of the vilest and worst in their flock. Imagine that they all sit in a circle and watch this one pigeon, who squanders and wastes this wealth. And then imagine that they rush at a weak pigeon who is the most hungry among them who darest to take one grain from the heap without permission, and they punish him. If you can imagine this, then you can understand the day-to-day behavior of mankind. —WILLIAM PALEY” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

281. “Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he

prided himself on his origin, he ought not to stop at Rurik and disown the first founder of his family-- the monkey.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

282. “But women, my boy, they’re the pivot everything turns upon.” ― Leo Tolstoy 283. “Now she understood that Anna could not have been in lilac, and that her charm was just that

she always stood out against her attire, that her dress could never be noticeable on her. And her black dress, with its sumptuous lace, was not noticeable on her; it was only the frame, and all that was seen was she—simple, natural, elegant, and at the same time gay and eager.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

284. “His father always talked to him—so Seryozha felt—as though he were addressing some boy

of his own imagination, one of those boys that exist in books, utterly unlike himself. And

Seryozha always tried with his father to act being the story-book boy.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

285. “Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was unpleasant for her to read, that is, to follow

the reflection of other people's lives. She wanted too much to live herself. When she read about the heroine of the novel taking care of a sick man, she wanted to walk with inaudible steps round the sick man's room; when she read about a Member of Parliament making a speech, she wanted to make that speech; when she read about how Lady Mary rode to hounds, teasing her sister-in-law and surprising everyone with her courage, she wanted to do it herself.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

286. “At times he would become so absorbed in reading, that all the kerosene in the lamp would

burn out, and still he could not tear himself away. And so Avdyeitch used to read every evening.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Where Love Is, There God Is Also

287. “Patriotism and its results--wars--give an enormous revenue to the newspaper trade, and

profits to many other trades. Every writer, teacher, and professor is more secure in his place the more he preaches patriotism. Every Emperor and King obtains the more fame the more he is addicted to patriotism.” ― Leo Tolstoy

288. “for him all the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class—all the girls in the

world except her, and those girls with all sorts of human weaknesses, and very ordinary girls: the other class—she alone, having no weaknesses of any sort and higher than all humanity.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

289. “Love hinders death. Love is life. Anything at all that I understand, I understand only because I

love. Everything is - everything exists - only because I love.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 290. “Soon after the doctor, Dolly had arrived. She knew that there was to be a consultation that

day, and though she was only just up after her confinement (she had another baby, a little girl, born at the end of the winter), though she had trouble and anxiety enough of her own, she had left her tiny baby and a sick child, to come and hear Kitty's fate, which was to be decided that day.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

291. “If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars,” ― Leo Tolstoy, War

and Peace 292. “If he had a reason for preferring Liberalism to the Conservatism of many in his set, it was not

that he considered Liberalism more reasonable, but because it suited his manner of life better.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

293. “When an apple ripens and falls—what makes it fall? Is it that it is attracted to the ground, is it

that the stem withers, is it that the sun has dried it up, that it has grown heavier, that the wind shakes it, that the boy standing underneath wants to eat it? No one thing is the cause. All this is only the coincidence of conditions under which every organic, elemental event of life is accomplished. And the botanist who finds that the apple falls because the cellular tissue degenerates, and so on, will be as right and as wrong as the child who stands underneath and says that the apple fell because he wanted to eat it and prayed for it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

294. “The ruling classes have in their hands the army, money, the schools, the churches, and the

press. In the schools, they kindle patriotism in the children by means of histories describing their own people as the best of all peoples and always in the right. Among adults they kindle it by spectacles, jubilees, monuments, and by a lying patriotic press. Above all, they inflame patriotism in this way: perpetrating every kind of harshness and injustice against other nations,

they provoke in them enmity towards their own people, and then in turn exploit that enmity to embitter their people against the foreigner.” ― Leo Tolstoy

295. “He could seek no object in life now, because now he had faith—not faith in any sort of

principles, or words, or ideas, but faith in a living, ever-palpable God. In old days he had sought Him in the aims he set before himself. That search for an object in life had been only a seeking after God; and all at once in his captivity he had come to know, not through words or arguments, but by his own immediate feeling, what his old nurse had told him long before; that God is here, and everywhere. In his captivity he had come to see that the God in Karataev was grander, more infinite, and more unfathomable than the Architect of the Universe recognised by the masons. He felt like a man who finds what he has sought at his feet, when he has been straining his eyes to seek it in the distance. All his life he had been looking far away over the heads of all around him, while he need not have strained his eyes, but had only to look in front of him.

296. In old days he had been unable to see the great, the unfathomable, and the infinite in

anything. He had only felt that it must be somewhere, and had been seeking it. In everything near and comprehensible, he had seen only what was limited, petty, everyday, and meaningless. He had armed himself with the telescope of intellect, and gazed far away into the distance, where that petty, everyday world, hidden in the mists of distance, had seemed to him great and infinite, simply because it was not clearly seen. Such had been European life, politics, freemasonry, philosophy, and philanthropy in his eyes. But even then, in moments which he had looked on as times of weakness, his thought had penetrated even to these remote objects, and then he had seen in them the same pettiness, the same ordinariness and meaninglessness.

297. Now he had learnt to see the great, the eternal, and the infinite in everything; and naturally

therefore, in order to see it, to revel in its contemplation, he flung aside the telescope through which he had hitherto been gazing over men’s heads, and looked joyfully at the ever-changing, ever grand, unfathomable, and infinite life around him. And the closer he looked at it, the calmer and happier he was. The terrible question that had shattered all his intellectual edifices in old days, the question: What for? had no existence for him now. To that question, What for? he had now always ready in his soul the simple answer: Because there is a God, that God without whom not one hair of a man’s head falls.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

298. “Levin resolved the first question at once, with extraordinary ease, though it had seemed so

difficult to him before.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 299. “He bent his head towards his shoulder and tried to look pitiful and humble, but for all that he

was radiant with freshness and health.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 300. “It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any

phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes is inherent in man's very nature.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

301. “the sun rose brilliant and quickly wore away the thin layer of ice that covered the water, and

all the warm air was quivering with the steam that rose up from the quickened earth.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

302. “...and nearly laughed aloud from the joy that came over her for no reason. She felt her nerves

tighten more and more, like strings on winding pegs. She felt her eyes open wider and wider, her fingers and toes move nervously; something insider her stopped her breath, and all images and sounds in that wavering semi-darkness impressed themselves on her with extraordinary vividness. She kept having moments of doubt whether the carriage was moving forwards or backwards, or standing still. Was that Annushka beside her, or some stranger?

What is that on the armrest a fur coat or some animal? And what am I? Myself or someone else? It was frightening to surrender herself to this oblivion. But something was drawing her in, and she was able, at will, to surrender to it or hold back from it. She stood up to come to her senses. For a moment she recovered...wind and snow had burst in...everything became confused again...This muzhik with the long waist began to gnaw at something on the wall; the old woman began to stretch her legs out the whole length of the carriage and filled it with a black cloud; then something screeched and banged terribly, as if someone was being torn to pieces; then a red fire blinded her eyes, and then everything was hidden by a wall. Anna felt as if she was falling through the floor. But all this was not frightening but exhilarating.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

303. “He looked at people as if they were things. A nervous young man across from him, who

served on the circuit court, came to hate him for that look. The young man lit a cigarette from his, tried talking to him, and even jostled him, to let him feel that he was not a thing but a human being, but Vronsky went on looking at him as at a lamppost, and the young man grimaced, feeling that he was losing his self-possession under the pressure of this non-recognition of himself as a human being as was unable to fall asleep because of it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

304. “Ferreting in one’s soul, one often ferrets out something that might have lain there unnoticed.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 305. “Oblonsy was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-minded man

by observing that if you're going to be proud of your ancestry, why stop short at Prince Rurik and repudiate your oldest ancestor - the ape?” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

306. “insignificance of greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and the

still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one alive could understand or explain.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

307. “I know how men like Stiva look at it. You speak of his talking of you with her. That never

happened. Such men are unfaithful, but their home and wife are sacred to them. Somehow or other these women are still looked on with contempt by them, and do not touch on their feeling for their family. They draw a sort of line that can't be crossed between them and their families. I don't understand it, but it is so.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

308. “Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple

human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

309. “Konstantin Levin regarded his brother as a man of immense intellect and culture, as generous

in the highest sense of the word, and possessed of a special faculty for working for the public good. But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and more frequently the thought struck him that this faculty of working for the public good, of which he felt himself utterly devoid, was possibly not so much a quality as a lack of something —not a lack of good, honest, noble desires and tastes, but a lack of vital force, of what is called heart, of that impulse which drives a man to choose someone out of the innumerable paths of life, and to care only for that one. The better he knew his brother, the more he noticed that Sergey Ivanovitch, and many other people who worked for the public welfare, were not led by an impulse of the heart to care for the public good, but reasoned from intellectual considerations that it was a right thing to take interest in public affairs, and consequently took interest in them. Levin was confirmed in this generalization by observing that his brother did not take questions affecting the public welfare or the question of the

immortality of the soul a bit more to heart than he did chess problems, or the ingenious construction of a new machine.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

310. “It was evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had found them to be

so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to them.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

311. “He understood not only that she was close to him, but that he no longer knew where she

ended and he began. He understood it in the painful feeling of being split which he experienced at that moment. He was offended at first, but in that same instant he felt that he could not be offended by her, that she was him. In the first moment he felt like a man who, having suddenly received a violent blow from behind, turns with vexation and a desire for revenge to find out who did it, and realizes that he has accidentally struck himself, that there is no one to be angry with and he must endure and ease the pain.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

312. “Do you know," said Natasha in a whisper, moving closer to Nicholas and Sonya,"that when

one goes on and on recalling memories, one at last begins to remember what happened before one was in the world . . ."

313. "That is metempsychosis," said Sonya, who had always learned well, and remembered

everything."The Egyptians believed that our souls have lived in animals, and will go back into animals again."

314. "No, I don't believe we ever were in animals," said Natasha, still in a whisper though the music

had ceased."But I am certain that we were angels somewhere there, and have been here, and that is why we remember . . . .” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

315. “At the fact that I’m unable to think up a situation in which life would not be suffering, that we’re

all created in order to suffer, and that we all know it and keep thinking up ways of deceiving ourselves. But if you see the truth, what can you do?” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

316. “Is there a line to be drawn between psychological and physiological phenomena in man? and

if so, where?” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 317. “lifting his hands with a gesture of annoyance folded them across his” ― Leo Tolstoy, War And

Peace 318. “I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new

either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

319. “I want to enrich medical science with a new term: Arbeitskur.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 320. “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.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 321. “But tie yourself up with a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! And all you

have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with regret.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

322. “Man is flowing. In him there are all possibilities: he was stupid, now he is clever; he was evil,

now he is good, and the other way around. In this is the greatness of man.” ― Leo Tolstoy,

War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

323. “I am speaking of people of our educational level who are sincere with themselves, and not of

those who make the profession of faith a means of attaining worldly aims. (Such people are the most fundamental infidels, for if faith is for them a means of attaining any worldly aims, then certainly it is not faith.) these people of our education are so placed that the light of knowledge and life has caused an artificial erection to melt away, and they have either already noticed this and swept its place clear, or they have not yet noticed it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

324. “there was a new feature in Pierre which won him the favor of all people: this was the

recognition of the possibility for each person of thinking, feeling, and looking at things in his own way; the recognition of the impossibility of changing a person’s opinion with words. This legitimate peculiarity of each person, which formerly had troubled and irritated Pierre, now constituted the basis of the sympathy and interest he took in people.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

325. “of that yearning which makes a man choose one out of all the countless paths in life

presented to him and desire that one alone.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 326. “select some larger or smaller unit as the subject of observation—as criticism has every right

to do, seeing that whatever unit history observes must always be arbitrarily selected. Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art of integrating them (that is, finding the sum of these infinitesimals) can we hope to arrive at the laws of history.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

327. “What is the best time to do each thing? Who are the most important people to work with?

What is the most important thing to do at all times?.. 328. "..there is only one important time and is Now. The present moment is the only time over

which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in future. The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at your side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.” ― Leo Tolstoy

329. “... the mere fact of the death of a near acquaintance aroused, as usual, in all who heard of it

the complacent feeling that, "it is he who is dead and not I.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

330. “European countries unresistingly submitted to the introduction of general military service--i.e.,

to a state of slavery involving a degree of humiliation and submission incomparably worse than any slavery of the ancient world.” ― Leo Tolstoy

331. “So it must be!” thought Prince Andrei as he was driving out of the avenue of the house at

Bald Hills. “She, a pathetic, innocent being, stays to be devoured by a senile old man. The old man feels he’s to blame, but cannot change himself. My boy is growing up and rejoices at life, in which he will be the same as everybody else, the deceived or the deceiver. I’m going to the army—why? I don’t know myself, and I wish to meet a man whom I despise, in order to give him an occasion to kill me and laugh at me!” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

332. “Now, in that moment, he knew that neither all his doubts, nor the impossibility he knew in

himself of believing by means of reason, hindered him in the least from addressing God. It all blew off his soul like dust.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

333. “He had committed no evil action, but, what was far worse than an evil action, he had entertained evil thoughts, whence evil actions proceed. An evil action may not be repeated, and can be repented of; but evil thoughts generate all evil actions. An evil action only smooths the path for other evil acts; evil thoughts uncontrollably drag one along that path.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

334. “But that's just the aim of civilization—to make everything a source of enjoyment.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 335. “her object is doing good; she a Christian, yet she's always angry; and she always has

enemies, and always enemies in the name of Christianity and doing good.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace and Other Works by Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Awakening, and Master and Man

336. “Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. The wife had discovered that the

husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had given warning.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

337. “Nor was that all. Had I simply understood that life had no meaning I could have borne it

quietly, knowing that that was my lot. But I could not satisfy myself with that. Had I been like a man living in a wood from which he knows there is no exit, I could have lived; but I was like one lost in a wood who, horrified at having lost his way, rushes about wishing to find the road. He knows that each step he takes confuses him more and more, but still he cannot help rushing about.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

338. “Before, when I was ordered to consider him intelligent, I kept on trying to and I considered

myself stupid for not seeing how intelligent he was; but the moment I said, "he's stupid," but said it in a whisper, everything became quite clear.” ― Leo Tolstoy

339. “as is so often the case, was not so much annoyed at the fact itself as at the way in which he

had met his wife's words.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 340. “God is in the midst, and each drop tries to expand so as to reflect Him to the greatest extent.

And it grows, merges, disappears from the surface, sinks to the depths, and again emerges.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

341. “Nice passion is reading” ― Leo Tolstoy 342. “So much the worse for you!” he said mentally, like a man who, after vainly attempting to

extinguish a fire, should fly in a rage with his vain efforts and say, “Oh, very well then! you shall burn for this!” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

343. “He felt for the first moment as a man feels when, having suddenly received a violent blow

from behind, he turns round, angry and eager to avenge himself, to look for his antagonist, and finds that it is he himself who has accidentally struck himself, that there is no one to be

angry with, and that he must put up with and try to soothe the pain.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

344. “To Konstantin the peasant was simply the chief partner in their common labor, and in spite of

all the respect and the love, almost like that of kinship, he had for the peasant—sucked in probably, as he said himself, with the milk of his peasant nurse—still as a fellow-worker with him, while sometimes enthusiastic over the vigor, gentleness, and justice of these men, he was very often, when their common labors called for other qualities, exasperated with the peasant for his carelessness, lack of method, drunkenness, and lying.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

345. “Wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort, is only worth

anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.” ― Leo Tolstoy 346. “The means are... the balance of power in Europe and the rights of the people," the abbe was

saying. "It is only necessary for one powerful nation like Russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

347. “He felt what a murderer must feel, when he sees the body he has robbed of life. That body,

robbed by him of life, was their love, the first stage of their love. There was something awful and revolting in the memory of what had been bought at this fearful price of shame. Shame at their spiritual nakedness crushed her and infected him.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

348. “the dead man reviving in his heart died again and only weighed his heart down painfully.” ―

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 349. “All the wounds of society, the wounds of poverty, of vice, of ignorance—all will be laid bare.

Is there not something re-assuring in this? ” ― Leo Tolstoy, What Then Must We Do? 350. “All the ordinary circumstances of life, without which nothing could be imagined, ceased to

exist for Levin.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 351. “You went with the mother and came back with the son,” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 352. “It’s absurd that having started writing rules at fifteen, I should still be writing them at thirty,

without having trusted in, or followed a single one, but still for some reason believing in them and wanting them.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

353. “We shall not be afraid of their terror. Our confidence is in the Lord Almighty and not in man.”

― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Revised Edition of Original Version 354. “Thus ran his thoughts; he wanted to go to bed, but he felt loath to tear himself away from the

book.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Where Love Is, There God Is Also 355. “the side that fights more fiercely and spares itself least will win.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and

Peace 356. “War and Peace is also one of the most feared. And at 1,500 pages, 361 chapters, or 566,000

words, it’s” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

357. “All’s over, and there’s nothing more,” said Dolly. “And the worst of it all is, you see, that I can’t

cast him off: there are the children, I am tied. And I can’t live with him! It’s torture to see him.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

358. “When you seek God with your intellect and your actions, God exists in you, and as soon as

you decide that you have found God, and stop and become satisfied, you have lost him. —FYODOR STRAKHOV” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

359. “The idea of seeking help in her difficulty in religion was as remote from her as seeking help

from Alexey Alexandrovitch himself, although she had never had doubts of the faith in which she had been brought up. She knew that the support of religion was possible only upon condition of renouncing what made up for her the whole meaning of life. She was not simply miserable, she began to feel alarm at the new spiritual condition, never experienced before, in which she found herself. She felt as though everything were beginning to be double in her soul, just as objects sometimes appear double to over-tired eyes. She hardly knew that times what it was she feared, and what she hoped for. Whether she feared or desired what had happened, or what was going to happen and exactly what she longed for, she could not have said.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

360. “I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry

discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly;” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 361. “And the most awful thing about it is that it’s all my fault—all my fault, though I’m not to blame.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 362. “Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the

least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

363. “And however much the princess was assured that in our time young people themselves must

settle their fate, she was unable to believe it, as she would have been unable to believe that in anyone’s time the best toys for five-year-old children would be loaded pistols.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

364. “It seems that Pharisee must have been such a man as I am. I, too, apparently have thought

only of myself,—how I might have my tea, be warm and comfortable, but never to think about my guest. He thought about himself, but there was not the least care taken of the guest. And who was his guest? The Lord Himself. If He had come to me, should I have done the same way?” ― Leo Tolstoy, Where Love Is There God Is Also

365. “Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 366. “But what is war? What is needed for success in warfare? What are the habits of the military?

The aim of war is murder; the methods of war are spying, treachery, and their encouragement, the ruin of a country’s inhabitants, robbing them or stealing to provision the army, and fraud and falsehood termed military craft. The habits of the military class are the absence of freedom, that is, discipline, idleness, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, and drunkenness. And in spite of all this it is the highest class, respected by everyone. All the kings, except the Chinese, wear military uniforms, and he who kills most people receives the highest rewards.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

367. “And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-

abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion, and had long, indeed, been accustomed to jeer without anger, each at the other’s incorrigible aberrations.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

368. “worn-out woman no longer young or good-looking, and in no way remarkable or interesting,

merely a good mother,” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 369. “It was one of those things that one knows but cannot even tell oneself - so dreadful and

shameful it would be to be mistaken.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 370. “From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and began knitting a striped

scarf for him.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 371. “Prince Bolkonsky was of medium height, a rather handsome young man with well-defined and

dry features. Everything in his figure, from his weary, bored gaze to his quiet, measured gait, presented the sharpest contrast with his small, lively wife. Obviously, he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but was also so sick of them that it was very boring for him to look at them and listen to them. Of all the faces he found so boring, the face of his pretty wife seemed to be the one he was most sick of. With a grimace that spoiled his handsome face, he turned away from her. He kissed Anna Pavlovna’s hand and, narrowing his eyes, looked around at the whole company.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

372. “Besides, Oblonsky was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-

minded man by observing that if you're going to be proud of your ancestry, why stop short at prince Rurik and repudiate your oldest ancestor-- the ape?” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

373. “Does it ever happen to you,' said Natasha to her brother when they had settled down in the

sitting-room, 'does it ever happen to you to feel as if there were nothing more to come—nothing; that everything good is past? And to feel not exactly dull, but sad?'

374. 'I should think so!' he replied. 'I have felt like that when everything was all right and everyone was cheerful. The thought comes into my mind that I'm already tired of it all, and that we must all die. Once in the regiment I didn't go to some merrymaking where there was music...and suddenly I felt so depressed...” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

375. “I have heard it said that women love men even for their vices,” Anna began suddenly, “but I

hate him for his virtues. I can’t live with him. Do you understand?” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

376. “It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul,

and that that part of her soul would quickly be smothered in the life she was leading.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

377. “Money, in itself, is evil. And therefore he who gives money gives evil. ” ― Leo Tolstoy, What

Then Must We Do? 378. “Pierre did not go to the army, but remained in deserted Moscow, still in the same anxiety,

irresolution, in the fear and at the same time the joy of awaiting something terrible.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

379. “No matter what he thought about, he always returned to these same questions which he

could not solve and yet could not cease to ask himself. It was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, but went on turning uselessly in the same place. (…) ‘What is bad? What is good? What should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I? What is life, and what is death? What power governs all?’ There was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. The answer was: ‘You’ll die and all will end. You’ll die and know all, or cease asking.’ But dying was also dreadful.” ― Leo Tolstoy

380. “If we’re laying out a garden, planning one before the house, you know, and there you’ve a tree that’s stood for centuries in the very spot. . . . Old and gnarled it may be, and yet you don’t cut down the old fellow to make room for the flowerbeds, but lay out your beds so as to take advantage of the tree. You won’t grow him again in a year . . .” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

381. “I work, I want to do something, but I had forgotten it must all end; I had forgotten-death.” ―

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 382. “That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life,

replacing all his old desires; that which for Anna had been an impossible, terrible, and even for that reason more entrancing dream of bliss, that desire had been fulfilled. He stood before her, pale, his lower jaw quivering, and besought her to be calm, not knowing how or why.

383. “Anna! Anna!” he said with a choking voice, “Anna, for pity’s sake!…” 384. But the louder he spoke, the lower she dropped her once proud and gay, now shame-stricken

head, and she bowed down and sank from the sofa where she was sitting, down on the floor, at his feet; she would have fallen on the carpet if he had not held her.

385. “My God! Forgive me!” she said, sobbing, pressing his hands to her bosom. 386. She felt so sinful, so guilty, that nothing was left her but to humiliate herself and beg

forgiveness; and as now there was no one in her life but him, to him she addressed her prayer for forgiveness. Looking at him, she had a physical sense of her humiliation, and she could say nothing more. He felt what a murderer must feel, when he sees the body he has robbed of life. That body, robbed by him of life, was their love, the first stage of their love. There was something awful and revolting in the memory of what had been bought at this fearful price of shame. Shame at their spiritual nakedness crushed her and infected him. But in spite of all the murderer’s horror before the body of his victim, he must hack it to pieces, hide the body, must use what he has gained by his murder.

387. And with fury, as it were with passion, the murderer falls on the body, and drags it and hacks

at it; so he covered her face and shoulders with kisses. She held his hand, and did not stir. “Yes, these kisses—that is what has been bought by this shame. Yes, and one hand, which will always be mine—the hand of my accomplice.” She lifted up that hand and kissed it. He sank on his knees and tried to see her face; but she hid it, and said nothing. At last, as though making an effort over herself, she got up and pushed him away. Her face was still as beautiful, but it was only the more pitiful for that.

388. “All is over,” she said; “I have nothing but you. Remember that” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 389. “for shaving. "Are there any papers from the office?" asked Stepan Arkadyevitch, taking the

telegram and seating himself at the looking-glass. "On the table," replied Matvey, glancing” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

390. “Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-

holes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception which reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

391. “An artist is one of two things: he is either a high priest, or a more or less smart entertainer. —

GIUSEPPE MAZZINI” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

392. “A man cannot get rid of the responsibility, for his own actions.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Revised Edition of Original Version

393. “The ideal is within you, and the obstacle to reaching this ideal is also within you. You already

possess all the material from which to create your ideal self. —THOMAS CARLYLE” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

394. “He was very well aware that he ran no risk of being ridiculous in the eyes of Betsy or any

other fashionable people. He was very well aware that in their eyes the position of an unsuccessful lover of a girl, or of any woman free to marry, might be ridiculous. But the position of a man pursuing a married woman, and, staking his life on drawing her into adultery, has something fine and grand about it, and can never be ridiculous; and so it was with a proud and gay smile under his mustaches that he lowered the opera glass and looked at his cousin.” ― Leo Tolstoy

395. “Each of us has his skeletons in his soul, as the English say.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 396. “and indeed, if yevgeny irtenev was mentally deranged when he committed this crime, then

everyone is similarly insane. the most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.” ― Leo Tolstoy

397. “Can this be faith?’ he wondered, afraid to believe his happiness. ‘My God, thank you!’ he

said, choking back the rising sobs and with both hands wiping away the tears that filled his eyes.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

398. “When Levin thought about what he was and what he lived for, he found no answer and fell

into despair; but when he stopped asking himself about it, he seemed to know what he was and what he lived for, because he acted and lived firmly and definitely.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

399. “influence in the world is a capital, which must be carefully guarded if it is not to disappear.” ―

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 400. “You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled

in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

401. “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom” ―

Leo Tolstoy 402. “Gaiety and grief and despair and tenderness and triumph followed one another without any

connection, like the emotions of a madman. And those emotions, like a madman's, sprang up quite unexpectedly.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

403. “One need only admit the premise that public peace of mind is in danger and any action finds

justification. All the horrors of the Reign of Terror in France were based entirely on solicitude for public tranquillity.” ― Leo Tolstoy

404. “But the more intensely he thought, the clearer it became to him that it was indubitably so, that

in reality, looking upon life, he had forgotten one little fact-that death will come, and all ends; that nothing was even worth beginning, and that there was no helping it anyway. Yes it was awful, but it was so.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

405. “But by marriages of prudence we mean those in which both parties have sown their wild oats

already. That's like scarlatina—one has to go through it and get it over.” ― Leo Tolstoy

406. “every man was conscious of his own insignificance, aware that he was but a grain of sand in

that ocean of humanity, and yet at the same time had a sense of power as a part of that vast whole.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

407. “Anna read and understood, but it was unpleasant to read, that is to say, to follow the

reflection of other people's lives. She was too eager to live herself.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

408. “To a herd of rams, the ram the herdsman drives each evening into a special enclosure to feed

and that becomes twice as fat as the others must seem to be a genius. And it must appear an astonishing conjunction of genius with a whole series of extraordinary chances that this ram, who instead of getting into the general fold every evening goes into a special enclosure where there are oats—that this very ram, swelling with fat, is killed for meat. But the rams need only cease to suppose that all that happens to them happens solely for the attainment of their sheepish aims; they need only admit that what happens to them may also have purposes beyond their ken, and they will at once perceive a unity and coherence in what happened to the ram that was fattened. Even if they do not know for what purpose they are fattened, they will at least know that all that happened to the ram did not happen accidentally, and will no longer need the conceptions of chance or genius.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

409. “He saw nothing but death or the advance towards death in everything.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna

Karenina 410. “The more respect that different objects, customs, or laws are given, the more attentively you

have to question the right these things have to this respect.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

411. “Count Vronsky: I love you! 412. Anna Karenina: Why? 413. Count Vronsky: You can't ask Why about love!” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 414. “There was not a single cross or worried-looking face. All seemed to have left their cares and

anxieties in the porter's room with their hats, and were all deliberately getting ready to enjoy the material blessings of life.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

415. “Have you not yet seen, or not been introduced to ma tante?” Anna Pavlovna said to her

guests as they arrived, and very seriously she led them up to a little old lady wearing tall bows, who had sailed in out of the next room as soon as the guests began to arrive. Anna Pavlovna mentioned their names, deliberately turning her eyes from the guest to ma tante, and then withdrew. All the guests performed the ceremony of greeting the aunt, who was unknown, uninteresting and unnecessary to every one. Anna Pavlovna with mournful, solemn sympathy, followed these greetings, silently approving them. Ma tante said to each person the same words about his health, her own health, and the health of her majesty, who was, thank God, better to-day. Every one, though from politeness showing no undue haste, moved away from the old lady with a sense of relief at a tiresome duty accomplished, and did not approach her again all the evening.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

416. “Yes, there is something uncanny, demonic, and fascinating in her.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna

Karenina 417. “society, and proceeded to introduce a series of sweeping social, economic, and political

reforms, including” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

418. “Liberty and equality,” said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at last deciding seriously to

prove to this youth how foolish his words were, “high-sounding words which have long been discredited. Who does not love liberty and equality? Even our Saviour preached liberty and equality. Have people since the Revolution become happier? On the contrary. We wanted liberty, but Buonaparte has destroyed it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

419. “We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done

them.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 420. “what do I know and what have I got to teach?” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession 421. “That's how it always is," Koznyshev interrupted him. "We Russians are always like that.

Perhaps it's one of our good national characteristics. I mean this faculty of seeing our own shortcomings. But we overdo it. We comfort ourselves with ironic remarks which are always on the tip of the tongue.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

422. “Levin had often noticed in discussions between the most intelligent people that after

enormous efforts, and an enormous expenditure of logical subtleties and words, the disputants finally arrived at being aware that what they had so long been struggling to prove to one another had long ago, from the beginning of the argument, been known to both, but that they liked different things, and would not define what they liked for fear of its being attacked. He had often had the experience of suddenly in a discussion grasping what it was his opponent liked and at once liking it too, and immediately he found himself agreeing, and then all arguments fell away as useless.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

423. “the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary,

artificial, idle, and individualistic life he was leading for this laborious, pure, and socially delightful life.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

424. “She was jealous not of any particular woman but of the decrease of his love. Not having an

object for her jealousy, she was on the lookout for it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 425. “The loathing which Nekhludoff felt increased with the reading of the description. Katiousha's

life, the sanies running from the nostrils, the eyes that came out of their sockets, and his conduct toward her—all seemed to him to belong to the same order, and he was surrounded and swallowed up by these things.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Awakening The Resurrection

426. “The means are... the balance of power in Europe and the rights of the people," the abbe was

saying. "It is only necessary for one powerful nation like Russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to place herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object the maintenance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the world!” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

427. “Levin lost all sense of time, and could not have told whether it was late or early now. A

change began to come over his work, which gave him immense satisfaction. In the midst of his toil there were moments during which he forgot what he was doing, and it came all easy to him, and at those same moments his row was almost as smooth and well cut as Tit's.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

428. “... if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like

them to be...” ― Leo Tolstoy

429. “All were glad, the plants, the birds, the insects, and the children. But men, grown-up men and women, did not leave off cheating and tormenting themselves and each other.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy

430. “There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world

that could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

431. “And the botanist who finds that the apple falls because the cellular tissue degenerates, and

so on, will be as right and as wrong as the child who stands underneath and says that the apple fell because he wanted to eat it and prayed for it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

432. “She felt as though everything were beginning to be double in her soul, just as objects

sometimes appear double to over-tired eyes. She hardly knew at times what it was she feared, and what she hoped for. Whether she feared or desired what had happened, or what was going to happen, and exactly what she longed for, she could not have said.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

433. “There is only one thing in this world which is worth dedicating all your life. This is creating

more love among people and destroying barriers which exist between them.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

434. “Why, of course," objected Stepan Arkadyevitch. "But that's just the aim of civilization--to make

everything a source of enjoyment." "Well, if that's its aim, I'd rather be a savage.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

435. “household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that” ― Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina 436. “And the slaves prided themselves on their master, saying: ‘There is no better lord than ours

under the sun. He feeds and clothes us well, and gives us work suited to our strength. He bears no malice, and never speaks a harsh word to any one. He is not like other masters, who treat their slaves worse than cattle: punishing them whether they deserve it or not, and never giving them a friendly word. He wishes us well, does good, and speaks kindly to us. We do not wish for a better life.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy

437. “if you don't strain the strings, and then try to break them, you'll find it a difficult job; but strain a

string to its very utmost, and the mere weight of one finger on the strained string will snap it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

438. “And the dog you're taking with you will be no help to you. You can't get away from

yourselves.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 439. “...the ones who leaped to the forefront and shouted louder than the rest were all the failures

and the aggrieved: commanders-in-chief without armies, ministers without ministries, journalists without journals, party chiefs without partisans.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

440. “And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing

himself” ― Leo Tolstoy 441. “He positively forgot where he was, and not even hearing what was said, he could not take his

eyes off the marvelous portrait. It was not a picture, but a living, charming woman, with black curling hair, with bare arms and shoulders, with a pensive smile on the lips, covered with soft down; triumphantly and softly she looked at him with eyes that baffled him. She was not living

only because she was more beautiful than a living woman can be.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

442. “You do not admit the conceivability at all?' he queried. 'But why not? We admit the existence

of electricity, of which we know nothing. Why should there not be some new force, still unknown to us, which...'

443. 'When electricity was discovered,' Levin interrupted hurriedly, 'it was only the phenomenon

that was discovered, and it was unknown from what it proceeded and what were its effects, and ages passed before its applications were conceived. But the spiritualists have begun with tables writing for them, and spirits appearing to them, and have only later started saying that it is an unknown force.'

444. Vronsky listened attentively to Levin, as he always did listen, obviously interested in his words. 445. 'Yes, but the spiritualists say we don't know at present what this force is, but there is a force,

and these are the conditions in which it acts. Let the scientific men find out what the force consists in. Not, I don't see why there should not be a new force, if it...'

446. 'Why, because with electricity,' Levin interrupted again, 'every time you rub tar against wool, a

recognized phenomenon is manifested, but in this case it does not happen every time, and so it follows it is not a natural phenomenon.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

447. “It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year

are a certainty, when one begins to think of the sowing for next year, and the mowing is at hand; when the rye is all in ear, though its ears are still light, not yet full, and it waves in gray-green billows in the wind; when the green oats, with tufts of yellow grass scattered here and there among it, droop irregularly over the late-sown fields; when the early buckwheat is already out and hiding the ground; when the fallow lands, trodden hard as stone by the cattle, are half ploughed over, with paths left untouched by the plough; when from the dry dung-heaps carted onto the fields there comes at sunset a smell of manure mixed with meadow-sweet, and on the low-lying lands the riverside meadows are a thick sea of grass waiting for the mowing, with blackened heaps of the stalks of sorrel among it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

448. “In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete

discord between the spouses or loving harmony. But when the relations between spouses are uncertain and there is neither the one nor the other, nothing can be undertaken.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

449. “As he looked round, she too turned her head .Her shining gray eyes, that looked dark from

the thick lashes, rested with friendly attention on his face, as though she were recognizing him, and then promptly turned away to the passing crowd, as though seeking someone. In that brief look Vronsky had time to notice the suppressed eagerness which played over her face, and flitted between the brilliant eyes and faint smile that curved her red lips. It was as though her nature were so brimming with something that against her will it showed itself now in the flash of her eyes, and now in her smile. Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in that faintly perceptible smile.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

450. “A change now began to take place in his work which gave him enormous pleasure. In the

midst of his work moments came to him when he forgot what he was doing and began to feel light, and in those moments his swath came out as even and good as Titus's. But as soon as he remembered what he was doing and starting trying to do better, he at once felt how hard the work was and the swath came out badly.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

451. “If, in former times, Governments were necessary to defend their people from other people's attacks, now, on the contrary, Governments artificially disturb the peace that exists between the nations, and provoke enmity among them.” ― Leo Tolstoy

452. “Our business is to do our duty, to cut and slash, not to think, that’s all,” ― Leo Tolstoy, War

and Peace 453. “Of course, if everybody insists on it, there’s no help for it.… But believe me, my dear boy, the

two most powerful warriors are patience and time:” ― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace 454. “Alone. Is the room to be got ready upstairs?” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 455. “We don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done

them.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

456. “A change began to come over his work, which gave him immense satisfaction. In the midst of

his toil there were moments during which he forgot what he was doing, and it came all easy to him, and at those same moments his row was almost as smooth and well cut as Tit’s. But so soon as he recollected what he was doing, and began trying to do better, he was at once conscious of all the difficulty of his task, and the row was badly mown.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

457. “Well, so you're pleased with your day. And so am I. First, I solved two chess problems, one of

them a very nice one — it opens with a pawn. I'll show you.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 458. “Pfuel was one of those theoreticians who so love their theory that they lose sight of the

theory's object—its practical application. His love of theory made him hate everything practical, and he would not listen to it. He was even pleased by failures, for failures resulting from deviations in practice from the theory only proved to him the accuracy of his theory.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

459. “Power is the collective will of the people transferred, by expressed or tacit consent, to their

chosen rulers.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

460. “And the Angel said," I have learned that every man lives, not through care of himself, but by

love.” ― Leo Tolstoy 461. “A moment ago, and how close she had been to him, of what importance in his life! And how

aloof and remote from him she had become now! 462. "It was bound to be so," he said, not looking at her.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 463. “He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of

whence, and why, and how, and what it was” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 464. “Stepan Arkadyevitch had gone to Petersburg to perform the most natural and essential official

duty—so familiar to everyone in the government service, though incomprehensible to outsiders—that duty, but for which one could hardly be in government service, of reminding the ministry of his existence—and having, for the due performance of this rite, taken all the available cash from home, was gaily and agreeably spending his days at the races and in the summer villas.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

465. “Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life's impossible; and that I can't know, and so I can't live,” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

466. “And so in place of insignificant, vague, and uncertain phrases subject to arbitrary

interpretation, I found in Matthew v. 21-26 the first commandment of Jesus: Live in peace with all men. Do not regard anger as justifiable under any circumstances. Never look upon a human being as worthless or as a fool. Not only refrain from anger yourself, but do not regard the anger of others toward you as vain. If any one is angry with you, even without reason, be reconciled to him, that all hostile feelings may be effaced. Agree quickly with those that have a grievance against you, lest animosity prevail to your loss.” ― Leo Tolstoy, My Religion

467. “He had known at the bottom of his heart that he would see her here today. But to keep his

thoughts free, he had tried to persuade himself that he did not know it. Now when he heard that she was here, he was suddenly conscious of such delight, and at the same time of such dread, that his breath failed him and he could not utter what he wanted to say.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

468. “She doesn’t stand up because her legs are too short. She’s a very bad figure.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 469. “Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an opportunity to express

his own views, as young people are fond of doing.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 470. “The stars, as if knowing that no one was looking at them, began to disport themselves in the

dark sky: now flaring up, now vanishing, now trembling, they were busy whispering something gladsome and mysterious to one another.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

471. “for the general good, he could not stop short for the sake of one man's life.” ― Leo Tolstoy,

War and Peace 472. “Prince Hippolyte, under pretense of helping, was in everyone's way.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and

Peace 473. “Can’t you go tomorrow?’ she said. ‘No, I can’t! The business I’m going for, the warrant and

the money, won’t have come by tomorrow,’ he replied.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 474. “It is dreadful that one cannot tear the past out by the roots.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 475. “In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble-organism, and that

bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 476. “said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force of habit said things he did not even wish

to be believed.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 477. “at the club, members gathered to peruse these broadsheets, and some approved of the way

Karpushka was made to jeer at the French, saying that Russian cabbages will blow them up like balloons, Russian porridge burst their bellies and cabbage-soup finish them off. They are all dwarfs, and one peasant-woman will toss three of them at a time with” ― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

478. “There was apparently nothing extraordinary in what she said, but what unutterable meaning

there was for him in every sound, in every turn of her lips, her eyes, her hand as she said it! There was entreaty for forgiveness, and trust in him and tenderness--soft, timid tenderness--and promise and hope and love for him, which he could not but believe in and which choked him with happiness.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

479. “Among the people to whom he belonged, nothing was written or talked about at that time

except the Serbian war. Everything that the idle crowd usually does to kill time, it now did for the benefit of the Slavs: balls, concerts, dinners, speeches, ladies' dresses, beer, restaurants—all bore witness to our sympathy with the Slavs.

480. With much that was spoken and written on the subject Konyshev did not agree in detail. He

saw that the Slav question had become one of those fashionable diversions which, ever succeeding one another, serve to occupy Society; he saw that too many people took up the question from interested motives. He admitted that the papers published much that was unnecessary and exaggerated with the sole aim of drawing attention to themselves, each outcrying the other. He saw that amid this general elation in Society those who were unsuccessful or discontented leapt to the front and shouted louder than anyone else: Commanders-in-Chief without armies, Ministers without portfolios, journalists without papers, and party leaders without followers. He saw that there was much that was frivolous and ridiculous; but he also saw and admitted the unquestionable and ever-growing enthusiasm which was uniting all classes of society, and with which one could not help sympathizing. The massacre of our coreligionists and brother Slavs evoked sympathy for the sufferers and indignation against their oppressors. And the heroism of the Serbs and Montenegrins, fighting for a great cause, aroused in the whole nation a desire to help their brothers not only with words but by deeds.

481. Also there was an accompanying fact that pleased Koznyshev. It was the manifestation of

public opinion. The nation had definitely expressed its wishes. As Koznyshev put it, ' the soul of the nation had become articulate.' The more he went into this question, the clearer it seemed to him that it was a matter which would attain enormous proportions and become epoch-making.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

482. “for which cause a man will leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife, and the two

shall be one flesh’,” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 483. “Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always

perfectly new.” ― Leo Tolstoy 484. “Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy 485. “Throughout the performance Levin felt like a deaf person watching a dance. He was quite

perplexed when the music stopped and felt very tired as a result of strained attention quite unrewarded.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

486. “He did not know that Levin was feeling as though he had grown wings. Levin knew she was

listening to his words and that she was glad to listen to him. And this was the only thing that interested him.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

487. “Maybe its because i rejoice over what i have and don't grieve over what i don't have".” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 488. “Well, is ev’wything weady?’ asked Denisov. ‘Bwing the horses.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War And

Peace 489. “But it did not interest her at all. She and Levin had a conversation of there own, yet not a

conversation but a sort of mysterious communication, which brought them every moment nearer, and stirred in both a sense of joyful terror before the unknown into which they were entering.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

490. “All his life the example of a syllogism he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic - "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal - had seemed to him to be true only in relation to Caius the man, man in general, and it was quite justified , but he wasn't Caius and he wasn't man in general, and he had always been something quite, quite special apart from all other beings; he was Vanya, with Mama, with Papa, with Mitya and Volodya, with his toys and the coachman, with Nyanya, then with Katenka, with all the joys, sorrows, passions of childhood, boyhood, youth. Did Caius know the smell of the striped leather ball Vanya loved so much?: Did Caius kiss his mother's hand like that and did the silken folds of Caius's mother's dress rustle like that for him? Was Caius in love like that? Could Caius chair a session like that? And Caius is indeed mortal and it's right that he should die, but for me, Vanya, Ivan Ilych, with all my feelings and thoughts - for me it's quite different. And it cannot be that I should die. It would be too horrible.” ― Leo Tolstoy

491. “Our business is to do our duty, to cut and slash, not to think, that’s all,” he concluded.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, War and Peace 492. “Your tears mean nothing! You have never loved me; you have neither heart nor honorable

feeling! You are hateful to me, disgusting, a stranger—yes, a complete stranger!" With pain and wrath she uttered the word so terrible to herself—stranger.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

493. “may be of use, or we may not, but we're the growth of a thousand years. If we're laying out a

garden, planning one before the house, you know, and there you've a tree that's stood for centuries in the very spot…. Old and gnarled it may be, and yet you don't cut down the old fellow to make room for the flowerbeds, but lay out your beds so as to take advantage of the tree. You won't grow him again in a year,” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

494. “And from the height of this perception all that had previously tormented and preoccupied him

suddenly became illumined by a cold white light without shadows, without perspective, without distinction of outline. All life appeared to him like magic-lantern pictures at which he had long been gazing by artificial light through a glass. Now he suddenly saw those badly daubed pictures in clear daylight and without a glass.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

495. “Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly

perceptible smile.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 496. “She repeated continually, "My God! my God!" But neither "God" nor "my" had any meaning to

her.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 497. “Faith—or not faith—I don't know what it is—but this feeling has come just as imperceptibly

through suffering, and has taken firm root in my soul.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 498. “And it never occurs to anyone to admit a greatness that is not commensurate with the

standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable puniness.” ― Leo Tolstoy

499. “History – the amorphous, unconscious life within the swarm of humanity – exploits every

minute in the lives of kings as an instrument for the attainment of its own ends.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

500. “There is an Eastern fable, told long ago, of a traveller overtaken on a plain by an enraged

beast. Escaping from the beast he gets into a dry well, but sees at the bottom of the well a dragon that has opened its jaws to swallow him. And the unfortunate man, not daring to climb out lest he should be destroyed by the enraged beast, and not daring to leap to the bottom of the well lest he should be eaten by the dragon, seizes s twig growing in a crack in the well and

clings to it. His hands are growing weaker and he feels he will soon have to resign himself to the destruction that awaits him above or below, but still he clings on. Then he sees that two mice, a black one and a white one, go regularly round and round the stem of the twig to which he is clinging and gnaw at it. And soon the twig itself will snap and he will fall into the dragon's jaws. The traveller sees this and knows that he will inevitably perish; but while still hanging he looks around, sees some drops of honey on the leaves of the twig, reaches them with his tongue and licks them. So I too clung to the twig of life, knowing that the dragon of death was inevitably awaiting me, ready to tear me to pieces; and I could not understand why I had fallen into such torment. I tried to lick the honey which formerly consoled me, but the honey no longer gave me pleasure, and the white and black mice of day and night gnawed at the branch by which I hung. I saw the dragon clearly and the honey no longer tasted sweet. I only saw the unescapable dragon and the mice, and I could not tear my gaze from them. and this is not a fable but the real unanswerable truth intelligible to all.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

501. “Let others be afraid, but the soul is not afraid of anything. It lives according to its own laws. It

is bigger than space and older than time. It gives courage against all the misfortunes of life. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

502. “He who wants results must allow for the means.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 503. “And what will be there, and what has there been here? Why was I so reluctant to part with

life? There was something in this life I did not and do not understand.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

504. “I know more of the world than you do," she said. "I know how men like Stiva look at it. You

speak of his talking of you with her. That never happened. Such men are unfaithful, but their home and wife are sacred to them. Somehow or other these women are still looked on with contempt by them, and do not touch on their feeling for their family. They draw a sort of line that can't be crossed between them and their families. I don't understand it, but it is so.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

505. “To Konstantin Levin the country was good first because it afforded a field for labor, of the

usefulness of which there could be no doubt. To Sergey Ivanovitch the country was particularly good, because there it was possible and fitting to do nothing.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

506. “I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a

powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read, one after the other, works regarded as his best: "King Lear," "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet" and "Macbeth," not only did I feel no delight, but I felt an irresistible repulsion and tedium . . . . Shakespeare can not be recognized either as a great genius, or even as an average author. . . . far from being the height of perfection, [King Lear] is a very bad, carelessly composed production, . . . can not evoke among us anything but aversion and weariness. . . . All his characters speak, not their own, but always one and the same Shakespearian, pretentious, and unnatural language . . . .” ― Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on Shakespeare

507. “Prince Vasili took the first opportunity to gain his confidence, flatter him, become intimate with

him,” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 508. “And a New York Times survey from 2009 identified War and Peace as the world classic

you’re most likely to find people reading on their subway commute to work.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

509. “No matter how old or how sick you are, how much or little you have done, your business in life not only isn’t finished, but hasn’t yet received its final, decisive meaning until your very last breath.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

510. “No, life is not over at thirty-one!" Prince Andrei suddenly decided finally and decisively.” ―

Leo Tolstoy 511. “But I shall spare her. On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism I will inscribe

great words of justice and mercy” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 512. “And the observance of his five commandments will bring peace upon the earth. They all have

but one object,—the establishment of peace among men. If men will only believe in the doctrine of Jesus and practise it, the reign of peace will come upon earth,—not that peace which is the work of man, partial, precarious, and at the mercy of chance; but the peace that is all-pervading, inviolable, and eternal. The first commandment tells us to be at peace with every one and to consider none as foolish or unworthy. If peace is violated, we are to seek to re-establish it. The true religion is in the extinction of enmity among men. We are to be reconciled without delay, that we may not lose that inner peace which is the true life (Matt. v. 22-24). Everything is comprised in this commandment; but Jesus knew the worldly temptations that prevent peace among men. The first temptation perilous to peace is that of the sexual relation. We are not to consider the body as an instrument of lust; each man is to have one wife, and each woman one husband, and one is never to forsake the other under any pretext (Matt. v. 28-32). The second temptation is that of the oath, which draws men into sin; this is wrong, and we are not to be bound by any such promise (Matt. v. 34-37). The third temptation is that of vengeance, which we call human justice; this we are not to resort to under any pretext; we are to endure offences and never to return evil for evil (Matt. v. 38-42). The fourth temptation is that arising from difference in nationalities, from hostility between peoples and States; but we are to remember that all men are brothers, and children of the same Father, and thus take care that difference in nationality leads not to the destruction of peace (Matt. v. 43-48).” ― Leo Tolstoy, My Religion

513. “All his life the example of a syllogism he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic - "Caius is a man,

men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal" - had seemed to him to be true only in relation to Caius the man, man in general, and it was quite justified , but he wasn't Caius and he wasn't man in general, and he had always been something quite, quite special apart from all other beings; he was Vanya, with Mama, with Papa, with Mitya and Volodya, with his toys and the coachman, with Nyanya, then with Katenka, with all the joys, sorrows, passions of childhood, boyhood, youth. Did Caius know the smell of the striped leather ball Vanya loved so much? Did Caius kiss his mother's hand like that and did the silken folds of Caius's mother's dress rustle like that for him? Was Caius in love like that? Could Caius chair a session like that? And Caius is indeed mortal and it's right that he should die, but for me, Vanya, Ivan Ilych, with all my feelings and thoughts - for me it's quite different. And it cannot be that I should die. It would be too horrible.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

514. “He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and

only two virtues—activity and intelligence.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

515. “This was his acknowledgment of the impossibility of changing a man’s convictions by words,

and his recognition of the possibility of everyone thinking, feeling, and seeing things each from his own point of view. This legitimate peculiarity of each individual which used to excite and irritate Pierre now became a basis of the sympathy he felt for, and the interest he took in, other people. The difference, and sometimes complete contradiction, between men’s opinions and their lives, and between one man and another, pleased him and drew from him an amused

and gentle smile.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

516. “The view of life adopted by these people, my literary associates, was that generally speaking

life is a process of development in the course of which the most important role is played by us, the thinkers; and that among the thinkers it is we, the artists and poets, who have the most influence. Our vocation is to educate people. In order to avoid being confronted by the obvious question - 'What do I know and what have I got to teach?” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

517. “The aim of the sinless One consists in acting without causing sorrow to others, although he

could attain to great power by ignoring their feelings. The aim of the sinless One lies in not doing evil unto those who have done evil unto him. If a man causes suffering even to those who hate him without any reason, he will ultimately have grief not to be overcome. The punishment of evil doers consists in making them feel ashamed of themselves by doing them a great kindness. Of what use is superior knowledge in the one, if he does not endeavour to relieve his neighbour's want as much as his own? If, in the morning, a man wishes to do evil unto another, in the evening the evil will return to him.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Letter to a Hindu

518. “The commandments for peace given by Jesus,—those simple and clear commandments,

foreseeing all possibilities of discussion, and anticipating all objections,—these commandments proclaimed the kingdom of God upon earth. Jesus, then, was, in truth, the Messiah. He fulfilled what had been promised. But we have not fulfilled the commands we must fulfil if the kingdom of God is to be established upon earth,—that kingdom which men in all ages have earnestly desired, and have sought for continually, all their days.” ― Leo Tolstoy, My Religion

519. “But if you are alive—live: tomorrow you'll die as I might have died an hour ago. And is it worth

tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life in comparison with eternity?” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

520. “As the sun and each atom of ether is a sphere complete in itself, and yet at the same time

only a part of a whole too immense for man to comprehend, so each individual has within himself his own aims and yet has them to serve a general purpose incomprehensible to man.

521. A bee settling on a flower has stung a child. And the child is afraid of bees and declares that

bees exist to sting people. A poet admires the bee sucking from the chalice of a flower and says it exists to suck the fragrance of flowers. A beekeeper, seeing the bee collect pollen from flowers and carry it to the hive, says that it exists to gather honey. Another beekeeper who has studied the life of the hive more closely says that the bee gathers pollen dust to feed the young bees and rear a queen, and that it exists to perpetuate its race. A botanist notices that the bee flying with the pollen of a male flower to a pistil fertilizes the latter, and sees in this the purpose of the bee's existence. Another, observing the migration of plants, notices that the bee helps in this work, and may say that in this lies the purpose of the bee. But the ultimate purpose of the bee is not exhausted by the first, the second, or any of the processes the human mind can discern. The higher the human intellect rises in the discovery of these purposes, the more obvious it becomes, that the ultimate purpose is beyond our comprehension.

522. All that is accessible to man is the relation of the life of the bee to other manifestations of life.

And so it is with the purpose of historic characters and nations.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

523. “said Dolly, putting her hands to her temples and closing her eyes. Alexey Alexandrovitch

smiled coldly, with his lips alone, meaning to” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

524. “Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky—Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world— woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning, not in his wife's bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

525. “Looking down over the railing, Prince Nesvitsky could see the splashing low waves of the

fast-moving Enns as they rippled and swirled, chasing each other and crashing against the bridge-supports. Then looking back along the bridge he saw the same kind of formless living tidal wave of soldiers, with their covered shakos,7 knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and beneath the shakos the broad faces and sunken cheeks of men reduced to an apathetic weariness, their legs tramping across the boards of the bridge through a thick layer of sticky mud. Sometimes amid the featureless waves of soldiers, like a fleck of white foam on the waves of the Enns, an officer in his cloak would wriggle through, his face looking quite different from those of the soldiers around him. Sometimes, like a splinter of wood borne on the current, an individual would be swirled across the bridge amid the waves of infantrymen – a hussar walking without his horse, an orderly or a civilian. Sometimes a baggage-wagon belonging to a company commander or some other officer would struggle across like a floating log, hemmed in on all sides, piled up high and draped with leather covers.” ― Leo Tolstoy

526. “Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any man take

away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also,” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 527. “To a lackey no man can be great, for a lackey has his own conception of greatness.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

528. “In the first period after his return from Moscow, when he still gave a start and blushed each

time he remembered the disgrace of the refusal, Levin said to himself: 'I blushed and shuddered in the same way, thinking all was lost, when I got the lowest grade in physics and had to repeat my second year; I thought myself lost in the same way after I bungled my sister's affair, which had been entrusted to me. And what happened? Now that years have passed, I remember it and wonder how it could have upset me. It will be the same with this grief. Time will pass and, and I'll grow indifferent to it.” ― Leo Tolstoy

529. “Prince Andrei recognized Wolzogen and Clausewitz, accompanied by a Cossack. They

passed close by, continuing to converse, and Pierre and Andrei involuntarily heard the following phrases: “Der Krieg muss im Raum verlegt werden. Der Ansicht kann ich nicht genug Preis geben,”* said one. “O ja,” said the other voice.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

530. “a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his

surprise had not found her in the study either, and saw her” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 531. “There had been in his past, as in every man's, actions, recognized by him as bad, for which

his conscience ought to have tormented him; but the memory of these evil actions was far from causing him so much suffering as those trivial but humiliating reminiscence” ― Leo Tolstoy

532. “The objection that the doctrine of Jesus is excellent but impracticable, comes not only from

believers, but from sceptics, from those who do not believe, or think that they do not believe, in the dogmas of the fall of man and the redemption; from men of science and philosophers who consider themselves free from all prejudice. They believe, or imagine that they believe, in nothing, and so consider themselves as above such a superstition as the dogma of the fall and the redemption.” ― Leo Tolstoy, My Religion

533. “That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life, replacing all his old desires; that which for Anna had been an impossible, terrible, and even for that reason more entrancing dream of bliss, that desire had been fulfilled. He stood before her, pale, his lower jaw quivering, and besought her to be calm, not knowing how or why.

534. “Anna! Anna!” he said with a choking voice, “Anna, for pity’s sake!…” 535. But the louder he spoke, the lower she dropped her once proud and gay, now shame-stricken

head, and she bowed down and sank from the sofa where she was sitting, down on the floor, at his feet; she would have fallen on the carpet if he had not held her.

536. “My God! Forgive me!” she said, sobbing, pressing his hands to her bosom. 537. She felt so sinful, so guilty, that nothing was left her but to humiliate herself and beg

forgiveness; and as now there was no one in her life but him, to him she addressed her prayer for forgiveness. Looking at him, she had a physical sense of her humiliation, and she could say nothing more. He felt what a murderer must feel, when he sees the body he has robbed of life. That body, robbed by him of life, was their love, the first stage of their love. There was something awful and revolting in the memory of what had been bought at this fearful price of shame. Shame at their spiritual nakedness crushed her and infected him. But in spite of all the murderer’s horror before the body of his victim, he must hack it to pieces, hide the body, must use what he has gained by his murder.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

538. “There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed

to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good. Levin belonged to the second class.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

539. “He had heard that women often did care for ugly and ordinary men, but he did not believe it,

for he judged by himself, and he could not himself have loved any but beautiful, mysterious, and exceptional women.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

540. “was sitting perfectly still with the letter in her hand, looking at him with an expression of

horror, despair, and” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 541. “during his short visit Nikolai, as people always do where there are children, turned to Prince

Andrei’s little son, caressing him and asking him whether he would like to be a hussar. He took the child on his knee, played with him and looked round at Princess Maria. With a softened, happy, shy look she was watching the little lad she loved in the arms of the man she loved. Nikolai caught that look, and as though he divined its significance flushed with pleasure and” ― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

542. “Remember then: there is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time

because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!” ― Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live By and Other Tales

543. “But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.” ― Leo

Tolstoy 544. “At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the

heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the

means of avoiding it; the other even more reasonable says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger, since it is not a man's power to provide for everything and escape from the general march of events; and that it is therefore better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.” ― Leo Tolstoy

545. “in every man, there were two beings: one the spiritual, seeking only that kind of happiness for

him self which should tend towards the happiness of all; the other, the animal man, seeking only his own happiness, and ready to sacrifice to it the happiness of the rest of the world.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy

546. “Forgive me not according to my unworthiness, but according to thy loving kindness.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 547. “I'm afraid I'm becoming ridiculous.” ― Leo Tolstoy 548. “And indeed, if Eugene Iretnev was mentally deranged when he committed this crime, then

everyone is similarly insane. The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.” ― Leo Tolstoy

549. “With friends one is well; but at home, one is better.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 550. “Kitty made the acquaintance of Madame Stahl too, and this acquaintance, together with her

friendship with Varenka, did not merely exercise a great influence on her, it also comforted her in her mental distress. She found this comfort through a completely new world being opened to her by means of this acquaintance, a world having nothing in common with her past, an exalted, noble world, from the height of which she could contemplate her past calmly. It was revealed to her that besides the instinctive life to which Kitty had given herself up hitherto there was a spiritual life. This life was disclosed in religion, but a religion having nothing in common with that one which Kitty had known from childhood, and which found expression in litanies and all-night services at the Widow's Home, where one might meet one's friends, and in learning by heart Slavonic texts with the priest. This was a lofty, mysterious religion connected with a whole series of noble thoughts and feelings, which one could do more than merely believe because one was told to, which one could love.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

551. “Knowledge is limitless. Therefore, there is a minuscule difference between those who know a

lot and those who know very little.” ― Leo Tolstoy 552. “She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details,” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna

Karenina 553. “Doctors came to see her singly and in consultation, talked much in French, German, and

Latin, blamed one another, and prescribed a great variety of medicines for all the diseases known to them, but the simple idea never occurred to any of them that they could not know the disease that Natasha was suffering from, as no disease suffered by a by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medicine - not a disease of the lungs, liver, skin, heart, nerves, and so on mentioned in medical books, but a disease consisting of one of the innumerable combinations of the maladies of those organs.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

554. “There was in her the glow of the real diamond among glass imitations.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna

Karenina

555. “Said He, whoever exalts himself, shall be humbled, and he who is humbled shall become exalted.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Where Love Is There God Is Also

556. “those moments when once and for all a man shows his worth and that his whole past has not

been in vain but has been a preparation for those moments.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 557. “A man who does not understand the benefit of suffering does not live a clever and true life.” 558. ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se 559. “I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in

truth it is love alone by which they live.” ― Leo Tolstoy 560. “In a clock the complex action of countless different wheels works its way out in the even,

leisurely movement of hands measuring time; in a similar way the complex action of humanity in those 160,000 Russians and Frenchmen – all their passions, longings, regrets, humiliation and suffering, their rushes of pride, fear and enthusiasm – only worked its way out in defeat at the battle of Austerlitz, known as the battle of the three Emperors, the slow tick-tock of the age-old hands on the clock face of human history.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

561. “But besides that, however painful the mother’s fear of illnesses, the illnesses themselves, and

the distress at seeing signs of bad inclinations in her children, the children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold in the sand, and in her bad moments she saw only griefs, only sand; but there were also good moments, when she saw only joys, only gold.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

562. “When I doubted, there was hope; but now there is no hope and even so I doubt everything.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 563. “It showed him the eternal error people make in imagining that happiness is the realization of

desires.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 564. “It is very difficult to tell the truth, and young people are rarely capable of it.” ― Leo Tolstoy,

War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

565. “Can this be death?’ Prince Andrei wondered, casting a fleeting glance of quite unwonted envy

at the grass, the wormwood and the thread of smoke that curled upward from the whistling black ball. ‘I can’t die, I don’t want to die. I love life – I love this grass, this earth, this air.…’ These were the thoughts in his mind, and at the same time he remembered that people were looking at him.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

566. “We have organized a social order which we cherish and look upon as sacred. Jesus, whom

we recognize as God, comes and tells us that our social organization is wrong. We recognize him as God, but we are not willing to renounce our social institutions. What, then, are we to do? Add, if we can, the words "without a cause" to render void the command against anger; mutilate the sense of another law, as audacious prevaricators have done by substituting for the command absolutely forbidding divorce, phraseology which permits divorce; and if there is no possible way of deriving an equivocal meaning, as in the case of the commands, "Judge not, condemn not," and "Swear not at all," then with the utmost effrontery openly violate the rule while affirming that we obey it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, My Religion

567. “At the men's end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. The colonel told them

that the declaration of war had already appeared in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

568. “Stephan Arkadyevitch had gone to Petersburg to perform the most natural and essential

official duty — so familiar to everyone in the government service, though incomprehensible to outsiders — that duty, but for which one could hardly be in government service, of reminding the ministry of his existence — and having, for the due performance of this rite, taken all the available cash from home, was gaily and agreeably spending his days at the races and in the summer villas.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

569. “As always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time without male society,

on Anatole’s appearance all the three women of Prince Bolkonsky’s household felt that their life had not been real till then. Their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing, immediately increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness full of significance.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

570. “Well, what should I have done? Counted every tree?" "Of course, they must be counted. You

didn't count them, but Ryabinin did. Ryabinin's children will have means of livelihood and education, while yours maybe will not!” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

571. “Every heart has its own skeletons,” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 572. “PRINCE ANDREW was to leave next evening.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus

material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman 573. “There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in

proportion as his interests are abstract; and his elemental life as a unit in the human swarm, in which he must inevitably obey the laws laid down for him.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

574. “ I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as

that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are the same.’

575. ‘But the Magdalen?’ 576. ‘Ah, drop that! Christ would never have said those words if He had known how they would be

abused. Of all the Gospel those words are the only ones remembered. ” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

577. “Now she knew all of them as people know one another in a country town; she knew their

habits and weaknesses, and where the shoe pinched each one of them.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

578. “the count, who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding that

everything was splendid.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 579. “after the echoes of the shots had died away over the stone Kremlin the French heard a

curious sound above their heads. Thousands of jackdaws flew up from the walls and circled in the air, cawing and noisily flapping their wings. At the same instant a solitary human cry rose from the gateway, and amid the smoke appeared the figure of a man, bare-headed and wearing a long peasant coat. Grasping his musket, he took aim at the French. ‘Fire!’ repeated the artillery officer, the crack of a rifle rang out simultaneously” ― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

580. “We destroy only because we’re spiritually sated. Exactly like children!” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna

Karenina 581. “Oh, how happy I am to have found it at last. Yes! It's all vanity, it's all an illusion, everything

except that infinite sky.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

582. “and long afterwards—for several years after—that look, full of love, to which he made no

response, cut her to the heart with an agony of shame.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

583. “We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand). The more we try to explain such events in history reasonably, the more unreasonable and incomprehensible do they become to us.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

584. “Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the

accomplishment of historical and social ends.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 585. “wide as between those who maintained that the earth is stationary and the planets revolve

round it, and those who admitted that they did not know what holds the earth in place but knew there were laws directing its movement and that of the other planets. There is, and can be, no cause of an historical event save the one cause of all causes. But there are laws governing events: some we are ignorant of, others we are groping our way to. The discovery of these laws becomes possible only when we finally give” ― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

586. “When he thought of her, he could call up a vivid picture of her to himself, especially the charm

of that little fair head, so freely set on the shapely girlish shoulders, and so full of childish brightness and good humor. The childishness of her expression, together with the delicate beauty of her figure, made up her special charm, and that he fully realised. But what always struck him in her as something unlooked for, was the expression of her eyes, soft, serene, and truthful, and above all, her smile, which always transported Levin to an enchanted world, where he felt himself softened and tender, as he remembered himself in some days of his early childhood.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

587. “There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world

that could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

588. “No," he said to himself, "however good that life of simplicity and toil may be, I cannot go back

to it. I love HER.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 589. “Where are there any records of God's goodness so easy to understand as the blessings

which God has strewn abroad for man's happiness? Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart? What sacrifices equal the self-denials which loving men and women make for one another? And what altar can be compared with the heart of a good man, on which God Himself accepts the sacrifice?” ― Leo Tolstoy

590. “But that’s just the aim of civilization—to make everything a source of enjoyment.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 591. “if you don’t strain the strings, and then try to break them, you’ll find it a difficult job; but strain

a string to its very utmost, and the mere weight of one finger on the strained string will snap it.” 592. ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 593. “Unhasting and unresting' was his motto” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 594. “book has a special interest for this reason alone. But apart from its interest from every point of

view, it is one of the most remarkable products of thought for its depth of aim, for the astounding strength and beauty of the national language in which it is written, and for its antiquity. And yet for more than four centuries it has remained unprinted, and is still unknown, except to a few learned specialists. One would have thought that all such works, whether of

the Quakers, of Garrison, of Ballou, or of Helchitsky, asserting and proving” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You

595. “the frequent thought of death,” the Rhetor said, “to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded

foe, but as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and peace.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

596. “Benefit performances, bad paintings and statues, philanthropic societies, Gypsies, schools,

subscription dinners, carousing, the Masons, churches, books—no one and nothing met with refusal,” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

597. “I am too proud to ever allow myself to care for a man who does not love me” ― Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina 598. “And where love ends, hate begins.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 599. “Let me lie down, Lord, like a stone; let me rise up like new bread.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and

Peace 600. “The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of one’s needs and consequent freedom in the

choice of one’s occupation, that is, of one’s way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be indubitably man’s highest happiness.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

601. “I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in

truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy

602. “The strongest proof that in the name of “science” we pursue unworthy and sometimes even

harmful things is the existence of a science of punishment, which in itself is one of the most ignorant and offensive types of action known to man, a vestige of the lowest level of human development, lower than that of a child or a madman.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

603. “Now I say that I know the meaning of my life:"To live for God, for my soul." And this meaning,

in spite of its clearness, is mysterious and marvelous. Such, indeed, is the meaning of everything existing.(12-7)” ― Leo Tolstoy

604. “Jealousy according to his notions was an insult to one's wife, and one ought to have

confidence in one's wife” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 605. “Perhaps because I rejoice in what I have, and don't fret for what I haven't” ― Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina 606. “Not all will believe in my teaching. And they who will not believe, will hate it; because it

bereaves them of that which they love, and strife will come of it. My teaching, like fire, will kindle the world. And from it strife must arise in the world. Strife will arise in every house. Father against son, mother against daughter; and their kin will become haters of them who understand my teaching, and they will be killed. Because, for him who shall understand my teaching, neither his father, nor his mother, nor wife, nor children, nor all his property, will have any weight.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The gospel in brief

607. “God. It all blew off his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he

felt himself, his soul and his love to be?” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

608. “How horrified he would have been if, seven years ago, when he had just come from abroad,

someone had told him that there was no need to seek or invent anything, that his rut had long been carved out for him and determined from all eternity, and that, however he twisted and turned, he would be that which everybody was in his position. He could not have believed it. Had he not wished with all his soul to establish a republic in Russia, then to become a Napoleon himself, a philosopher, a tactician, the defeater of Napoleon? Had he not seen the possibility and passionately wished to transform depraved mankind and bring his own self to the highest degree of perfection? Had he not established schools and hospitals and liberated his peasants?” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

609. “bustling about with wines and refreshments. Groups of singers stood under the windows. The

officer was admitted and immediately saw all the top generals of the army together, among them the big, imposing figure of Yermolov. They all had their coats unbuttoned and were standing in a semicircle with flushed and animated faces. In the middle of the room a short, handsome general with a red face was performing the steps of the trepak with much skill and spirit. ‘Ha, ha, ha! Bravo, Nikolai Ivanovich!” ― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

610. “Enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in finding it” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 611. “In historical events great men - so-called - are but labels serving to give a name to the event,

and like labels they have the least possible connexion with the event itself.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

612. “It all blew off his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt

himself, his soul and his love to be?” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 613. “Every man who knows to the minutest details all the complexity of the conditions surrounding

him, cannot help imagining that the complexity of these conditions, and the difficulty of making them clear, is something exceptional and personal, peculiar to himself, and never supposes that others are surrounded by just as complicated an array of personal affairs as he is.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

614. “What am I? And where am I? And why am I here?” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 615. “Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he

knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius — man in the abstract — was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others.” ― Leo Tolstoy

616. “Forgive me not according to my unworthiness, but according to Thy lovingkindness.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 617. “I'm inexcusably happy. Something magical has happened to me, like a dream, when you're

frightened, panic-stricken, and all of a sudden you wake up and all the horrors are no more. I have waked up. I have lived through the misery, the dread, and now for a long while past, especially since we've been here, I've been so happy!…” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

618. “But instead of all that, here he was—the rich husband of an unfaithful wife, a retired

gentleman-in-waiting, who liked to eat, drink, and, unbuttoning himself, to denounce the government a little, a member of the Moscow English Club, and a universally beloved member of Moscow society.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

619. “It's just this, my dear boy. One must do one of two things: either admit that the existing order

of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it; or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as I do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

620. “Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, i.e.,

absence of all useful work; frees them of their common human duties, which it replaces by merely conventional ones to the honour of the regiment, the uniform, the flag; and, while giving them on the one hand absolute power over other men, also puts them into conditions of servile obedience to those of higher rank than themselves.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

621. “position in which he was placed towards his wife by the discovery of his fault. Instead of

being” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 622. “It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a

doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.” ― Leo Tolstoy

623. “One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As

soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh.” ― Leo Tolstoy

624. “But I'm married, and believe me, in getting to know thoroughly one's wife, if one loves her, as

someone said, one gets to know all women better than if one knew thousands of them.” ― Leo Tolstoy

625. “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 begin 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, Anna Karenina

626. “When I am engrossed in an idea, all else is mere diversion.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 627. “...a thinking man has only to come into contact—as constantly happens in these days—with

people, equally good and bad, of different denominations, who condemn each other's beliefs, to doubt of the truth of the belief he professes himself...” ― Leo Tolstoy

628. “And yet our existence is so organized that every personal enjoyment is purchased at the price

of human suffering contrary to human nature.” ― Leo Tolstoy, My Religion - What I Believe 629. “Men are like rivers: the water is the same in each, and alike in all; but every river is narrow

here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm. It is the same with men. Every man carries in himself the germs of every human quality, and sometimes one manifests itself, sometimes another, and the man often becomes unlike himself, while still remaining the same man.” ― Leo Tolstoy

630. “Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts,

under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words that have a still less clear meaning and therefore can easily be plugged into any theory.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

631. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna

Karenina

632. “Vronsky’s life was particularly happy in that he had a code of principles, which defined with unfailing certitude what he ought and what he ought not to do. This code of principles covered only a very small circle of contingencies, but then the principles were never doubtful, and Vronsky, as he never went outside that circle, had never had a moment’s hesitation about doing what he ought to do.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

633. “Pray only thus: Our Father, without beginning and without end, like the heavens! May Thy

being alone be holy. May power be Thine alone, so that Thy will may be done, without beginning and without end, on earth. Give me the food of life this present day. Efface my former mistakes and wipe them out, as I efface and wipe out all the mistakes my brothers have made; that I may not fall into temptation, but be saved from evil. For the power and strength are Thine, and the decision is Thine.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

634. “Not reason. Reason discovered the struggle for existence, and the law that requires us to

oppress all who hinder the satisfaction of our desires. That is the deduction of reason. But loving one's neighbor reason could never discover, because it's irrational.” ― Leo Tolstoy

635. “If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars," he said.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, War and Peace 636. “Ambition, love of power, covetousness, lasciviousness, pride, anger, and revenge—were all

respected.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings 637. “If a man has the will he can learn anything.” ― Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does A Man

Need? 638. “What causes historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the collective will of the

people transferred to one person. Under what condition is the will of the people delegated to one person? On condition that that person expresses the will of the whole people. That is, power is power: in other words, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

639. “The kind aunt with whom I lived, herself the purest of beings, always told me that there was

nothing she so desired for me as that I should have relations with a married woman: 'Rien ne forme un juene homme, comme une liaison avec une femme comme il faut'.{1}” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

640. “What is the law of nature? Is it to know that my security and that of my family, all my

amusements and pleasures, are purchased at the expense of misery, deprivation, and suffering to thousands of human beings—by the terror of the gallows; by the misfortune of thousands stifling within prison walls; by the fear inspired by millions of soldiers and guardians of civilization, torn from their homes and besotted by discipline, to protect our pleasures with loaded revolvers against the possible interference of the famishing? Is it to purchase every fragment of bread that I put in my mouth and the mouths of my children by the numberless privations that are necessary to procure my abundance? Or is it to be certain that my piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that every one else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat?” ― Leo Tolstoy, My Religion - What I Believe

641. “Like Lydia Ivanovna and other people who shared their views, he was totally lacking in depth

of imagination, in that inner capacity owing to which the notions evoked by the imagination become so real that they demand to be brought into correspondence with other notions and with reality. He did not see anything impossible or incongruous in the notion that death, which existed for unbelievers, did not exist for him, and that since he possessed the fullest faith, of

the measure of which he himself was the judge, there was no sin in his soul and he already experienced full salvation here on earth.

642. It is true that Alexei Alexandrovich vaguely sensed the levity and erroneousness of this notion

of his faith, and he knew that when, without any thought that his forgiveness was the effect of a higher power, he had given himself to his spontaneous feeling, he had experienced greater happiness than when he thought every moment, as he did now, that Christ lived in his soul and that by signing papers he was fulfilling His will; but it was necessary for him to think that way, it was so necessary for him in his humiliation to possess at least an invented loftiness from which he, despised by everyone, could despise others, that he clung to his imaginary salvation as if it were salvation indeed.” ― Leo Tolstoy

643. “Patriotism , as a feeling of exclusive love for one's own people, and as a doctrine of tile virtue

of sacrificing one's tranquillity, one's property, and ever, one's life, in defence of one's own people from slaughter and outrage by their enemies, was the highest idea of the period when each nation considered it feasible and just, for its own advantage, to subject to slaughter and outrage the people of other nations.” ― Leo Tolstoy

644. “The view of life of these people, my comrades in authorship, consisted in this: that life in

general goes on developing, and in this development we—men of thought—have the chief part; and among men of thought it is we—artists and poets—who have the greatest influence. Our vocation is to teach mankind.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

645. “Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself. He was incapable of

deceiving himself and persuading himself that he repented of his conduct. He could not at this date repent of the fact that he, a handsome, susceptible man of thirty-four, was not in love with his wife, the mother of five living and two dead children, and only a year younger than himself. All he repented of was that he had not succeeded better in hiding it from his wife. But he felt all the difficulty of his position and was sorry for his wife, his children, and himself. Possibly he might have managed to conceal his sins better from his wife if he had anticipated that the knowledge of them would have had such an effect on her.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

646. “It all depends with how much judgment and knowledge the thing's done.” ― Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina 647. “He thought of nothing, desired nothing, except not to lag behind and to do the best job he

could.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 648. “All men love live not by what they may intend for their own well-being, but by the love that

dwells in others.” ― Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live by and Other Tales 649. “She was one of those creatures which seem only not to speak because the mechanism of

their mouth does not allow them to.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 650. “Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad.” ― Leo Tolstoy 651. “unable to understand or believe what was going to happen to them. They could not believe it

because they alone knew what their life meant to them, and so they neither understood nor believed that it could be taken from them.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

652. “He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing

in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 653. “Napoleon is great because he rose superior to the Revolution, suppressed its abuses,

preserved all that was good in it—equality of citizenship and freedom of speech and of the

press—and only for that reason did he obtain power.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

654. “just as in the world of plants and animals nothing ceases to exist, but continually changes its

form, the manure into grain, the grain into a food, the tadpole into a frog, the caterpillar into a butterfly, the acorn into an oak, so man also does not perish, but only undergoes a change. He believed in this, and therefore always looked death straight in the face, and bravely bore the sufferings that lead towards it” ― Leo Tolstoy

655. “I became convinced that almost all the priests of that religion, the writers, were immoral, and

for the most part men of bad, worthless character, much inferior to those whom I had met in my former dissipated and military life;” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

656. “Every monarch in the world, except the Emperor of China, wears a military uniform, and

bestows the greatest rewards on the man who kills the greatest number of his fellow-creatures.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

657. “we all talked at the same time, not listening to one another, sometimes seconding and

praising one another in order to be seconded and praised in turn, sometimes getting angry with one another—just as in a lunatic asylum.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

658. “Only by taking an infinitesimally small unit for observation (the differential of history, that is,

the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art of integrating them (that is, finding the sum of these infinitesimals) can we hope to arrive at the laws of history.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

659. “like a man who, after vainly attempting to extinguish a fire, should fly in a rage with his vain

efforts an say, "Oh, very well then! you shall burn for this!” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 660. “Yashvin, a gambler and a rake, a man not merely without moral principles, but of immoral

principles, Yashvin was Vronsky’s greatest friend in the regiment.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

661. “Our real innermost concern was to get as much money and praise as possible. To gain that

end we could do nothing except write books and papers.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

662. “he reflected. "Oh, oh, oh!" he kept repeating in despair, as he remembered the acutely painful

sensations caused him by this quarrel. Most unpleasant of all was the first minute when, on coming, happy and good-humored, from the theater, with a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had not found her in the study either, and saw her at last in her bedroom with the unlucky letter that revealed everything in her hand. She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details, and limited in her ideas, as he considered,” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

663. “And so among us this theory was devised: "All that exists is reasonable. All that exists

develops. And it all develops by means of Culture. And Culture is measured by the circulation of books and newspapers. And we are paid money and are respected because we write books and newspapers, and therefore we are the most useful and the best of men.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

664. “He saw that the inmost recesses of her soul, that had always hitherto lain open before him,

were closed against him.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

665. “One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing the living from the

dead, lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And what is there? Who is there?—there beyond that field, that tree, that roof lit up by the sun? No one knows, but one wants to know. You fear and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. But you are strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such excitedly-animated and healthy men.’ So thinks, or at any rate feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy,” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

666. “like all lunatics, simply called all men lunatics except myself.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

and Other Religious Writings 667. “Weyrother evidently felt himself to be at the head of a movement that had already become

unrestrainable. He was like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead to.” ― Leo Tolstoy, WAR & PEACE

668. “Understand that this isn’t love. I have been in love but this is not the same. This is not my

feeling, but some external force taking possession of me. I left because I decided it could not be, you understand, like a happiness that doesn’t exist on earth; but I have struggled with myself and I see that without it there is no life.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

669. “For him words took away the beauty of what he saw.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 670. “By virtue of her character, Kitty always assumed the most beautiful things of people,

especially those she did not know. And now, making guesses about who was who, what relations they were in, and what sort of people they were, Kitty imagined to herself the most beautiful characters and found confirmation in her observations.”

671. ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 672. “Isn't it distinctly to be seen in the development of each philosopher's theory, that he knows

what is the chief significance of life beforehand, just as positively as the peasant Fyodor, and not a bit more clearly than he, and is simply trying by a dubious intellectual path to come back to what everyone knows?” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

673. “...in spite of his solitude, or in consequence of his solitude, his life was exceedingly full.” ―

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 674. “Alexey Alexandrovitch was standing face to face with life, with the possibility of his wife's

loving someone other than himself, and this seemed to him very irrational and incomprehensible because it was life itself.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

675. “He could not admit that he had known the truth then and was now mistaken, because as soon

as he began to think calmly about it, the whole thing fell to pieces; nor could he admit that he had been mistaken then, because he cherished his state of soul at that time, and by admitting that it had been due to weakness he would have profaned those moments.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

676. “The thought of the harm caused to her husband aroused in her a feeling like repulsion, and

akin to what a drowning man might feel who has shaken off another man clinging to him. That man did drown. It was an evil action, of course, but it was the sole means of escape, and better not to brood over these fearful facts.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

677. “When I saw the head part from the body and how they thumped separately into the box, I understood, not with my mind but with my whole being, that no theory of the reasonableness of our present progress could justify this deed; and that though everybody from the creation of the world had held it to be necessary, on whatever theory, I knew it to be unnecessary and bad; and therefore the arbiter of what is good and evil is not what people say and do, nor is it progress, but it is my heart and I.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

678. “three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the

housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had given warning. Three days after” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

679. “In reality I was ever revolving round one and the same insoluble problem, which was: How to

teach without knowing what to teach.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

680. “not a lack of good, honest and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of life force, of what is

known as heart, of that yearning which makes a man choose one out of all the countless paths in life presented to him and desire that one alone...workers for the common good had not been brought to this love of the common good by heart, but had reasoned in their minds that it was good to be concerned with it and were concerned with it only because of that.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

681. “Kutuzov looked at him with eyes wide with dismay, and then took off his cap and crossed

himself. ‘God rest his soul! May the Lord’s will be done with all of us!’ He sighed deeply and was silent. ‘I loved and respected him, and I sympathize with you with all my heart.’ He embraced” ― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace