“When she heard this Sonya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“How can he talk like that?" thought Pierre. He considered his friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the highest degree just the very qualities Pierre lacked, and which might be best described as strength of will.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“If you feel that you are not free, look for the reason inside you.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“There was no solution but that usual solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer one must live in the needs of one that - that is, forget oneself.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“Kings are the slaves of history.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“All were happy -- plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people -- adult men and women -- never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy -- a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.”

― Leo Tolstoy

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

― Leo Tolstoy

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”

― Leo Tolstoy

“If you could forget and forgive what happened. He snatched the chalk with nervous, trembling fingers, and breaking it, wrote the initial letters of the following phrase, "I have nothing to forget and to forgive; I have never ceased to love you.”"

― Leo Tolstoy

“Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.”

― Leo Tolstoy


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