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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 438a7ae | 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 | ||
| f76734f | Satan can never be driven out by Satan. Error can never be corrected by error, and evil cannot be vanquished by evil. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| cabce9e | As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted only when there is something prepared to paint it on, so carnal love is only legitimate, reasonable, and lasting when it is based on the respect and love of one human being for another. | christian-marriage christianity love marriage sex | Leo Tolstoy | |
| dde3f2e | In affirming my belief in Christ's teaching, I could not help explaining why I do not believe, and consider as mistaken, the Church's doctrine, which is usually called Christianity. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 9f7f896 | But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels drew level with her, she threw away the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the car, and with a light movement, as though she would rise immediately, dropped on her knees. And at the instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing. 'Where am I? What am I doing? What .. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 5e4abb1 | When in doubt, my dear fellow, do nothing. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 115f588 | He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at the opposite end of the ground. There was apparently nothing striking either in her dress or her attitude. But for Levin she was as easy to find in that crowd as a rose among nettles. Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light on all round her. "Is it possible I can go over there on the ice, go up to .. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| dea9926 | It was long before I could believe that human learning had no clear answer to this question. For a long time it seemed to me, as I listened to the gravity and seriousness wherewith Science affirmed its positions on matters unconnected with the problem of life, that I must have misunderstood something. For a long time I was timid in the presence in learning, and I fancied that the insufficiency of the answers which I received was not its fau.. | questions science | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 25396c8 | One must do one of two tings: 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 | ||
| 072b317 | He was always in a hurry to get where he was not. | seeking | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 7fd647b | Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another. | contempt relationships | Leo Tolstoy | |
| f5b6170 | In his Petersburg world people were divided into two quite opposite sorts. One--the inferior sort: the paltry, stupid, and, above all, ridiculous people who believe that a husband should live with the one wife to whom he is married, that a girl should be pure, a woman modest, and a man, manly, self controlled and firm; that one should bring up one's children to earn their living, should pay one's debts, and other nonsense of the kind. These.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 32dee6b | I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper...there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people...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 | ||
| 24c435c | A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 65103aa | So it would be, were it not for the law of inertia, as immutable a force in men and nations as in inanimate bodies. In men it takes the form of the psychological principle, so truly expressed in the words of the Gospel, " They have loved darkness better than light, because their deeds were evil." This principle shows itself in men not trying to recognise the truth, but to persuade themselves that the life they are leading, which is what the.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 9673d06 | 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 | ||
| c53ef34 | As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in his heart. To each of them it seemed that the life he led was the only real life, and the one his friend led was a mere illusion. | perception-of-reality real-life | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 24ce04d | Spring, love, happiness! Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? Always the same and always a fraud! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness! | insignificance world-weariness | Leo Tolstoy | |
| ee6cd1d | Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!" | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 2032214 | He meditated on the use to which he should put all the energy of youth which comes to a man only once in life. Should he devote this power, which is not the strength of intellect or heart or education, but an urge which once spent can never return, the power given to a man once only to make himself, or even - so it seems to him at the time - the universe into anything he wishes: should he devote it to art, to science, to love, or to practic.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 95fea77 | It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations. | Maurice Merleau-Ponty | ||
| 0ae2b56 | Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me. But then I think of Charlie waiting at the window. His life is not mine to throw away. I've just burrowed it for a while, and now I'm being asked to return it. | flowers-for-algernon | Daniel Keyes | |
| 53a8038 | Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| de92341 | But the deeper I get tangled up in this mass of dreams and memories the more I realize that emotional problems can't be solved as intellectual problems are. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 84cb136 | The feeling of cold grayness was everywhere around me-a sense of resignation. There had been no talk of rehabilitation, of cure, of someday sending these people out into the world again. No one had spoken of hope. The feeling was of living death-or worse, of never having been fully alive and knowing. Souls withered from the beginning, and doomed to stare into the time and space of every day. | flowers-for-algernon | Daniel Keyes | |
| a9cbe39 | What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches. | mental-health | Daniel Keyes | |
| 6b0bbf5 | Something important is always about to happen... And if not, you'd do well to act as if it were. You'll enjoy life better that way. | Julia Quinn | ||
| a5d1155 | Click. The door swung open. "Three," James said with a slightly self-satisfied smile. "Well done," Caroline said. He smiled back at her. "I've never met a woman or a lock that didn't love me." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 43c1495 | Help me. Please?" She gave him an abashed nod (but not nearly so abashed as she ought) and turned to Harriet. "I think that Lord Winstead refers to the rhyming qualities of the title." Harriet blinked a few times. "It doesn't rhyme." "Oh, for heaven's sake," Elizabeth burst out. " Finstead Winstead?" Harriet's gasp very nearly sucked the air from the room. "I never noticed!" she exclaimed. "Obviously," her sister drawled. "I must have been .. | julia-quinn the-crazy-smythe-smiths | Julia Quinn | |
| 79a1b94 | Have you seen Frances?" He tilted his head to the right. "I believe she's off rooting about in the bushes." Anne followed his gaze uneasily. "Rooting?" "She told me she was practicing for the next play." Anne blinked at him, not following. "For when she gets to be a unicorn." "Oh, of course." She chuckled. "She is rather tenacious, that one." | anne daniel julia-quinn | Julia Quinn | |
| 5cb69ef | And when he kissed her . . . All she wanted was more. "You are so beautiful," he murmured, and for the first time in her life, Sarah truly believed that she was. She touched his cheek. "So are you." Hugh smiled down at her, a silly half grin that told her he did not believe her for one second." | julia-quinn sarah the-sum-of-all-kisses | Julia Quinn | |
| cd5b094 | Does that feel better?" she asked, not expecting any sort of an answer but feeling nonetheless that she ought to continue with her one-sided conversation. "I really don't know very much about caring for the ill, but it just seems to me like you'd want something cool on your brow. I know if I were sick, that's how I'd feel." He shifted restlessly, mumbling something utterly incoherent. "Really?" Sophie replied, trying to smile but failing mi.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 77e2900 | You're very impatient," Violet said, facing the door. "You always have been." "I know," Eloise said, wondering if this was a scolding, and if so, why was her mother choosing to do it now? "I always loved that about you," Violet said. "I always loved everything about you, of course, but for some reason I always found your impatience especially charming. It was never because you wanted more, it was because you wanted everything." Eloise wasn'.. | love mother | Julia Quinn | |
| a51248d | He blinked a few times, each motion so slow that he was never quite sure if he'd get his eyes open again. He wasn't wearing a shirt. Funny how he was only just realizing it. Funnier still that he couldn't seem to summon any concern for her maidenly sensibilities. She might be blushing. He couldn't tell. It was too dark to see. But it didn't matter. This was Honoria. She was a good egg. A sensible egg. She wouldn't be scarred forever by the .. | julia-quinn just-like-heaven marcus | Julia Quinn | |
| 5b9bf29 | He didn't like her. He really didn't, but by God, he'd have sold a piece of his soul right then to dance with her | love | Julia Quinn | |
| 62eadf1 | She smelled like England, of soft rain and sun-kissed meadows. And she felt like the best kind of heaven. He wanted to wrap himself around, bury himself within her, and stay there for all of his days. He hadn't had a drop to drink in three years, but he was intoxicated now, bubbling with a lightness he'd never thought to feel again. | Julia Quinn | ||
| cc29bd4 | But looking beautiful isn't, I think, as important as feeling beautiful, | Julia Quinn | ||
| 68a89e3 | If he was planning to attack and ravish, he gave no indication of being in a hurry to do so. | Julia Quinn | ||
| efaa70d | It wasn"t even desire. It was far more than that. It was love. Love. With a capital L and swirly script and hearts and flowers and whatever else the angels-- and yes, all those annoying little cupids--wished to use for embellishment." -- | Julia Quinn | ||
| 03fad28 | Eloiseis getting married as well." "Eloise?" Michael asked with some surprise. "Was she even being courted by anyone?" "No," Francesca said, quickly flipping to the third sheet of her mother"s letter. "It"s someone she"s never met." "Well, I imagine she"s met him now," Michael said in a dry voice." | Julia Quinn | ||
| b46aeb0 | Am I not allowed to speak in hyperbole?" "Only," he said, a bit too smoothly, "if you are talking about me." Ellie's face slid into a smirk. "Oh, Charles," she exclaimed, "I feel as if we have known each other for a million years." Her tone grew more ironic. "I am that weary of your company." | eleanor | Julia Quinn | |
| 6fd1658 | It's too hard to explain,' he said in a petulant mutter. 'If you want a new direction for your life,' she said, 'then for heaven's sake, just pick something out and do it. The world is your oyster, Colin. You're young, wealthy, and you're a *man*.' Penelope's voice turned bitter, resentful. 'You can do anything you want.' He scowled, which didn't surprise her. When people were convinced they had problems, the last thing they wanted to hear .. | Julia Quinn | ||
| e6452ba | In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments. | Susan Vreeland | ||
| f211fb3 | If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it. | Susan Vreeland |