leo-tolstoy

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65a0ebf	it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.	deeds good leo-tolstoy	Leo Tolstoy
54689a3	All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.	beauty charm diversity leo-tolstoy	Leo Tolstoy
560560e	He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it	despair leo-tolstoy love sadness	Leo Tolstoy
f72bd41	But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.	civilization enjoyment leo-tolstoy	Leo Tolstoy
8f5a886	But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.	capitalism dishonest hierarchy honest labor leo-tolstoy work	Leo Tolstoy
3286149	He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.	leo-tolstoy love	Leo Tolstoy
b470340	Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand	leo-tolstoy life life-philosophy	Leo Tolstoy
e27072f	I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.	leo-tolstoy literature russia	Leo Tolstoy
9de6d34	She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self	leo-tolstoy love	Leo Tolstoy
9e1c5ab	The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true	death leo-tolstoy life	Leo Tolstoy
2fcac26	The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work.	banks earnings labor leo-tolstoy monopolies profits railways work	Leo Tolstoy
db4dce0	"I think love, both kinds of love, which you remember Plato defines in his "Symposium" - both kinds of love serve a touchstone for men. Some men understand only the one, some only the other. Those who understand only the non-platonic love need not speak of tragedy. For such love there can be no tragedy. "Thank you kindly for the pleasure, good bye," and that's the whole tragedy. And for the platonic love there can be no tragedy either, because there everything is clear and pure."	constantine-dmitrich-levin leo-tolstoy	Leo Tolstoy
09d0ac4	Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.	leo-tolstoy quote story	Leo Tolstoy
ad029f9	Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making the person standing at your side happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.	imporatance-of-now inspiration-living inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes leo-tolstoy life life-experience life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes live-in-present most-important-thing now-quotes power-of-now questions suggestions what-to-do	Leo Tolstoy
eba8d44	Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven	heaven kingdom leo-tolstoy peace	Leo Tolstoy
82ccab0	"One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking about Einstein. Hardy had met him several times, and I had recently returned from visiting him. Hardy was saying that in his lifetime there had only been two men in the world, in all the fields of human achievement, science, literature, politics, anything you like, who qualified for the Bradman class. For those not familiar with cricket, or with Hardy's personal idiom, I ought to mention that "the Bradman class" denoted the highest kind of excellence: it would include Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Newton, Archimedes, and maybe a dozen others. Well, said Hardy, there had only been two additions in his lifetime. One was Lenin and the other Einstein."	archimedes bradman-class cambridge count-lev-nikolayevich-tolstoy einstein g-h-hardy godfrey-hardy godfrey-harold-hardy isaac-newton lenin leo-tolstoy lev-nikolayevich-tolstoy literature newton politics science shakespeare tolstoy vladimir-ilyich-lenin vladimir-lenin william-shakespeare	C.P. Snow
077ff21	Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of a woman whom we may call B, who is young and happy and has seen nothing as yet of life or of the world. Family circumstances of various kinds brought them together, and he grew to love her as a daughter, and had no fear that his love would change its nature. But he forgot that B was so young, that life was still a May-game to her and that it was easy to fall in love with her in a different way, and that this would amuse her. He made a mistake and was suddenly aware of another feeling, as heavy as remorse, making its way into his heart, and he was afraid. He was afraid that their old friendly relations would be destroyed, and he made up his mind to go away before that happened.	leo-tolstoy quote story	Leo Tolstoy
82fade0	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.	constantine-dmitrich-levin leo-tolstoy	Leo Tolstoy
48b5aea	No family, happy or unhappy, is quite like any other. Tolstoy was chock-fullo'shit. Remember that.	leo-tolstoy	A.J. Finn
543a10c	The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything.	leo-tolstoy	Leo Tolstoy

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Leo Tolstoy

54689a3

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

beauty charm diversity leo-tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

560560e

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

despair leo-tolstoy love sadness

Leo Tolstoy

f72bd41

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

civilization enjoyment leo-tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

8f5a886

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

capitalism dishonest hierarchy honest labor leo-tolstoy work

Leo Tolstoy

3286149

He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.

leo-tolstoy love

Leo Tolstoy

b470340

Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand

leo-tolstoy life life-philosophy

Leo Tolstoy

e27072f

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

leo-tolstoy literature russia

Leo Tolstoy

9de6d34

She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self

leo-tolstoy love

Leo Tolstoy

9e1c5ab

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

death leo-tolstoy life

Leo Tolstoy

2fcac26

The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work.

banks earnings labor leo-tolstoy monopolies profits railways work

Leo Tolstoy

db4dce0

"I think love, both kinds of love, which you remember Plato defines in his "Symposium" - both kinds of love serve a touchstone for men. Some men understand only the one, some only the other. Those who understand only the non-platonic love need not speak of tragedy. For such love there can be no tragedy. "Thank you kindly for the pleasure, good bye," and that's the whole tragedy. And for the platonic love there can be no tragedy either, because there everything is clear and pure."

constantine-dmitrich-levin leo-tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

09d0ac4

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

leo-tolstoy quote story

Leo Tolstoy

ad029f9

Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making the person standing at your side happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

imporatance-of-now inspiration-living inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes leo-tolstoy life life-experience life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes live-in-present most-important-thing now-quotes power-of-now questions suggestions what-to-do

Leo Tolstoy

eba8d44

Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven

heaven kingdom leo-tolstoy peace

Leo Tolstoy

82ccab0

"One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking about Einstein. Hardy had met him several times, and I had recently returned from visiting him. Hardy was saying that in his lifetime there had only been two men in the world, in all the fields of human achievement, science, literature, politics, anything you like, who qualified for the Bradman class. For those not familiar with cricket, or with Hardy's personal idiom, I ought to mention that "the Bradman class" denoted the highest kind of excellence: it would include Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Newton, Archimedes, and maybe a dozen others. Well, said Hardy, there had only been two additions in his lifetime. One was Lenin and the other Einstein."

archimedes bradman-class cambridge count-lev-nikolayevich-tolstoy einstein g-h-hardy godfrey-hardy godfrey-harold-hardy isaac-newton lenin leo-tolstoy lev-nikolayevich-tolstoy literature newton politics science shakespeare tolstoy vladimir-ilyich-lenin vladimir-lenin william-shakespeare

C.P. Snow

077ff21

Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of a woman whom we may call B, who is young and happy and has seen nothing as yet of life or of the world. Family circumstances of various kinds brought them together, and he grew to love her as a daughter, and had no fear that his love would change its nature. But he forgot that B was so young, that life was still a May-game to her and that it was easy to fall in love with her in a different way, and that this would amuse her. He made a mistake and was suddenly aware of another feeling, as heavy as remorse, making its way into his heart, and he was afraid. He was afraid that their old friendly relations would be destroyed, and he made up his mind to go away before that happened.

leo-tolstoy quote story

Leo Tolstoy

82fade0

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.

constantine-dmitrich-levin leo-tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

48b5aea

No family, happy or unhappy, is quite like any other. Tolstoy was chock-fullo'shit. Remember that.

leo-tolstoy

A.J. Finn

543a10c

The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything.

leo-tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy