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| d57d80b | Her eyes, always sad, now looked into the mirror with particular hopelessness. "She's flattering me," thought the princess, and she turned away and went on reading. Julie, however, was not flattering her friend: indeed, the princess's eyes, large, deep, and luminous (sometimes it was as if rays of light came from them in sheaves), were so beautiful that very often, despite the unattractiveness of the whole face, those eyes were more attract.. | ugliness unattractiveness | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 3fcdbe4 | He had lived (without being aware of it) on those spiritual truths that he had sucked in with his mother's milk, but he had thought, not merely without recognition of these truths, but studiously ignoring them. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 017dfc3 | In reality it was just what is usually seen in the houses of people of moderate means who want to appear rich, and therefore succeed only in resembling otherslike themselves: there are damasks, dark wood, plants, rugs, and dull and polished bronzes -- all the things people of a certain class have in order to resemble other people of that class. His house was so like the others that it would never have been noticed, but to him it all seemed .. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 89e5750 | Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these lofty ideals, love of culture, religion, they are only so many tools for getting on." | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| fd13651 | At the time we were all convinced that we had to speak, write,and publish as quickly as possible and as much as possible and that this was necessary for the good of mankind. Thousands of us published and wrote in an effort to teach others, all the while disclaiming and abusing one another. Without taking note of the fact that we knew nothing, that we did not know the answer to the simplest question of life, the question of what is right and.. | speaking writing | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 2e8334f | There is nothing, nothing certain but the nothingness of all that is comprehensible to us, and the grandeur of something incomprehensible, but more important! | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 99a1d7b | Napoleon, the man of genius, did this! But to say that he destroyed his army because he wished to, or because he was very stupid, would be as unjust as to say that he had brought his troops to Moscow because he wished to and because he was very clever and a genius | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 15db066 | He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his being bad (in that case he could have tried to be better), but from his being shamefully and repulsively unhappy. He knew that for this, for the very fact that his heart was torn with grief, they would be merciless to him. He felt that men would crush him as dogs strangle a torn dog yelping with pain. He knew that his sole means of.. | people | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 9f062f6 | The history of mankind is crowded with evidences proving that physical coercion is not adapted to moral regeneration, and that the sinful dispositions of men can be subdued only by love; that evil can be exterminated only by good; that it is not safe to rely upon the strength of an arm to preserve us from harm; that there is great security in being gentle, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy; that it is only the meek who shall inherit the.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 3306fc6 | What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world! | insightful | Leo Tolstoy | |
| b5fe3eb | Kitty got up to fetch a table, and, as she passed, her eyes met Levin's. She felt for him with her whole heart, the more because she was pitying him for a suffering of which she was herself the cause. "If you can forgive me, forgive me," said her eyes, "I am so happy." "I hate them all, and you, and myself," his eyes responded, and he took up his hat. But he was not destined to escape. Just as they were arranging themselves round the table,.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 23b56f6 | The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 9cee02a | There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| cae7a93 | In the past he had been unable to see the great, teh unfathomable, the infinite, in anything. He had only felt that it must exist somewhere and had been seeking it. In everything near and comprehensible he had seen only what was limited, petty, commonplace, and meaningless. He had equipped himself with a mental telescope and gazed into the distance where the distance had seemed to him great and infinite only because they were not clearly vi.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 1e2b6a9 | Reason is often the slave of sin; it strives to justify it. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 3239b99 | The combination of causes of phenomena is beyond the grasp of the human intellect. But the impulse to seek causes is innate in the soul of man. And the human intellect, with no inkling of the immense variety and complexity of circumstances conditioning a phenomenon, any one of which may be separately conceived of as the cause of it, snatches at the first and most easily understood approximation, and says here is the cause. | 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 | |
| e64c1c9 | A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, flared up with greater brightness than she had ever known, revealing to her all that before was in darkness, then flickered, grew faint, and went out forever. | death | Leo Tolstoy | |
| ddb96c7 | in infinite space and time everything develops, becomes more perfect and more complex, is differentiated",is to say nothing at all. Those are all words with no meaning, for in the infinite is neither complex nor simple, no forward nor backward, or better or worse." | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 9d4e275 | Stepan Arkadyich smiled. He knew so well this feeling of Levin's, knew that for him all the girls in the world were divided into two sorts: one sort was all the girls in the world except her, and these girls had all human weaknesses and were very ordinary girls; the other sort was her alone, with no weaknesses and higher than everything human. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 8ab4ee4 | Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself. The hardest thing is to be able in your soul to unite the meaning of all. To unite all? Pierre asked himself. "No, not to unite. Thoughts cannot be united, but to harness all these thoughts together is what we need! Yes, one must harness them, must harness them!.. | inner-strength inspirational philosophy | Leo Tolstoy | |
| c772ab3 | Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| fafe264 | But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and more frequently the thought struck him that this faculty of working for the public good, of which he felt himself utterly devoid, was possibly not so much a quality as a lack of something --not a lack of good, honest, noble desires and tastes, but a lack of vital force, of what is called heart, of that impulse which drives a man to.. | impulse purpose | Leo Tolstoy | |
| e62ae81 | I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 7f2f9b2 | To live in the needs of the day, find forgetfulness. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| c4bd373 | People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 355d1c7 | Sometimes I don't think I've done anything to leave my mark in this world. I'm the kind of person the world leaves a mark on. | Chris Offutt | ||
| cefc6aa | I started out the evening with every intention of being pleasant and making friends. But these days I have trouble getting through to people. I don't know if it's me or them, but any attempt at conversation usually fades away in a minute or two, and the barriers go up. Is it because they are afraid of me? Or is it that deep down they don't care and I feel the same about them? | Daniel Keyes | ||
| d850a7e | I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 73c293c | The most important thing had always been what other people thought-appearances before herself or her family. And righteous about it. Time and again Matt had insisted that what others thought about you wasn't the only thing in life. But it did no good. Norma had to dress well; the house had to have fine furniture; Charlie had to be kept inside so that other people wouldn't know anything was wrong. | charlie flowers-for-algernon | Daniel Keyes | |
| 5c9e0ad | I don't pretend to understand the mystery of love, but this time it was more than sex, more than using a woman's body. It was being lifted off the earth, outside fear and torment, being part of something greater than myself. I was lifted out of the dark cell of my own mind, to become part of someone else -- just as I had experienced it that day on the couch in therapy. It was the first step outward to the universe -- beyond the universe -- .. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| abd86ee | If I didn't understand what was happening at the time, he says, then it doesn't matter. I'm no more to blame than the knife is to blame in a stabbing, or the car in a collision. "But I'm not an inanimate object," I argued. "I'm a ." He looked confused for a moment and then laughed. "Of course, Charlie. But I wasn't referring to now. I meant before the operation." Smug, pompous--I felt like hitting him too. "I was a person before the opera.. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| 2c1437f | Nothing like trapping the gentlemen where they couldn't get away. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 2eafab6 | You'd never have gotten it right. You have to hit the door just so. It took me weeks to learn." "And what were you doing sneaking out at night?" he demanded. "I fail to see how that is your business." "You became my business when you took up residence in my house." "Well, I wouldn't have moved in if you hadn'tkidnapped me!" "I wouldn't have kidnapped you if you hadn't been wandering about the countryside with no thought to your own s.. | humor team-work | Julia Quinn | |
| b03536d | She was in love. Lady Sarah Pleinsworth was in love. And it was grand. | the-sum-of-all-kisses | Julia Quinn | |
| 997ccd2 | Full lips are better for kissing. | julia-quinn miranda-cheever nigel-bevelstoke viscount-turner | Julia Quinn | |
| 1af0032 | Something she knew she did not have the right to ask him about. But she wished--oh, how she wished--that when he was ready to face his fears, she could be the one to help him. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 83d9511 | Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 4fc71e2 | Is there anything else I can do to see to your comfort, Miss Trent?" Perriwick inquired. "She's fine," Blake growled. "Clearly, she--" "Perriwick, isn't the west wing on fire?" Perriwick blinked, sniffed the air, and stared at his employer in dismay. "I do not understand sir." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 39a8b4c | I'll talk to my mother," she promised. "If I'm sufficiently annoying, I'm sure I can get the engagement period cut in half." "It makes me wonder," he said. "As your future husband, should I be concerned by your use of the phrase if I'm sufficiently annoying?" "Not if you accede to all of my wishes." "A sentence that concerns me even more," he murmured. She did nothing but smile." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 25edde3 | Your heart is free now." "No," he whispered. "It's yours." | Julia Quinn | ||
| a4ba178 | Let me drive," she said, reaching for the reins. He turned to her in disbelief. "This is a phaeton, not a single-horse wagon." Sophie fought the urge to throttle him. His nose was running, his eyes were red, he couldn't stop coughing, and still he found the energy to act like an arrogant peacock. "I assure you," she said slowly, "that I know how to drive a team of horses." | horses sophie | Julia Quinn | |
| 4602fa0 | He had to kiss her. He had to. It was as basic and elemental as his breath, his blood, his very soul. And when he did... The earth stopped spinning. The birds stopped singing. Everything in the world came to a halt, everything but him and her and the feather-light kiss that connected them. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 45557a1 | He felt a bit like Romeo to her Juliet, minus the feuding families and poison. And with pigeons. | Julia Quinn |