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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 12

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I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

Want, Harm, Prove

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.528, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Spring, Projects, Springtime

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.1150, e-artnow

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Inspirational, Romantic, Long

"Anna Karenina". Novel by Leo Tolstoy. Part 1, Chapter 9, 1878.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

Mad, Wish

Leo Tolstoy (2015). “War and Peace: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.707, 谷月社

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Changing Your Life, Feels

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

People, Done

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.106, Vintage

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

Writing, Order, Routine

graf Leo Tolstoy (1985). “Tolstoy's Diaries”

The Kingdom of God is Within You.

Jesus, Christ Consciousness, Gnosis

Leo Tolstoy (2013). “The Non-Fiction of Leo Tolstoy: (Includes A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, A Letter to a Hindu, Youth, Tolstoy on Shakespeare, What to Do)”, p.138, Golgotha Press

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

Mother, Enemy, Impossible

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)”, p.283, e-artnow

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

Wicked, World, This World

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.75, Vintage

I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.

Life, Courage, Two

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

Men, People, Vocation

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.8669, e-artnow

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

Love, Life, Marriage

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.415, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

Honesty, Lying, Deceit

Leo Tolstoy (2014). “Anna Karenina”, p.378, OUP Oxford

Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. "Yes," they will say, "wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold." But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains.

War, People, Evil

graf Leo Tolstoy (1899). “Essays, Letters, Miscellanies. [Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole]”

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

Men, Tradition, Reason

"Essays and Letters".

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

Law, Reason, Loving Others

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.717, Courier Corporation

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

Fiction, Conflict, Versus

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

Boredom, Desire, Seeking

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Patriotism, Training, Principles

The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

Freedom, Essence, Slavery

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

Hard

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.271, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

Life And Death, Evil, Joy

graf Leo Tolstoy (1921). “A Confession: And, What I Believe”

As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.

Life, Heart, Men

Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

Light, Knowing Who You Are, Two

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.475, Vintage

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