“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“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.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. ”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."
- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“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. -Dolly”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it."
- Vronksy {Anna Karenina}”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
“I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Born place: in Yasnaya Polyana, Tula, Russian Empire
Born date September 9, 1828
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“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.”
― Henry David Thoreau, quote from Walden
“You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“But you haven't tried. You haven't tried once. First you refused to admit that there was a menace at all! Then you reposed an absolutely blind faith in the Emperor! Now you've shifted it to Hari Seldon. Throughout you have invariably relied on authority or on the past—never on yourselves."
His fists balled spasmodically. "It amounts to a diseased attitude—a conditioned reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing authority. There seems no doubt ever in your minds that the Emperor is more powerful than you are, or Hari Seldon Wiser. And that's wrong don't you see?"
For some reason, no one cared to answer him.
Hardin continued: "It isn't just you. It's the whole Galaxy. Pirenne heard Lord Dorwin's idea of scientific research. Lord Dorwin thought the way to be a good archaeologist was to read all the books on the subject—written by men who were dead for centuries. He thought that the way to solve archaeological puzzles was to weight the opposing authorities. And Pirenne listened and made no objections. Don't you see that there's something wrong with that?"
Again the note of near-pleading in his voice.
Again no answer. He went on: "And you men and half of Terminus as well are just as bad.. We sit here, considering the Encyclopedia the all-in-all. We consider the greatest end of science is the classification of past data. It is important, but is there no further work to be done? We're receding and forgetting, don't you see? Here in the Periphery they've lost nuclear power. In Gamma Andromeda, a power plant has undergone meltdown because of poor repairs, and the Chancellor of the Empire complains that nuclear technicians are scarce. And the solution? To train new ones? Never! Instead they're to restrict nuclear power."
And for the third time: "Don't you see? It's galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration—a stagnation!”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Foundation
“The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.”
― Kate Chopin, quote from The Awakening
“At Dachau. We had a wonderful pool for the garrison children. It was even heated. But that was before we were transferred. Dachau was ever so much nicer than Auschwitz. But then, it was in the Reich. See my trophies there. The one in the middle, the big one. That was presented to me by the Reich Youth Leader himself, Baldur von Schirach. Let me show you my scrapbook.”
― William Styron, quote from Sophie's Choice
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