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| eb2b658 | Life meanwhile, the actual life of men with their real interests of health and sickness, labour and rest, with their interests of thought, science, poetry, music, love, affection, hatred, passion, went its way, as always, independently, apart from the political amity or enmity of Napoleon Bonaparte, and apart from all possible reforms. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| f1c72b2 | One step across the dividing line, so like the one between the living and the dead and you enter an unknown world of suffering and death. What will you find there? Who will be there? There, just just beyond the field, that tree, that sunlit roof? No one knows, and yet you want to know. You dread crossing that line, and yet you want to cross it. You know sooner or later you will have to go across and find out what is there beyond it, just as.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| c0f80ba | Wait, wait,' he began, interrupting Oblonsky. 'Aristocratism, you say. But allow me to ask, what makes up this aristocratism of Vronsky or whoever else it may be - such aristocratism that I can be scorned? You consider Vronsky an aristocrat, but I don't. A man whose father crept out of nothing by wiliness, whose mother, God knows who she didn't have liaisons with... No, excuse me, but I consider myself an aristocrat and people like myself, .. | class levin oblonsky | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 17c3e13 | I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them -- that is, I wish to destroy that by which I live. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| da7c293 | Why do you need to be like anyone? You're good as you are, | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a7a9675 | With all my soul I longed to be in a position to join with the people in performing the rites of their faith, but I could not do it. I felt that I would be lying to myself, mocking what was sacred to me, if I were to go through with it. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 9662950 | Another's wife is a white swan, and ours is bitter wormwood. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| f82f790 | The only real science is the knowledge of how a person should live his life. And this knowledge is open to everyone. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 9e97325 | Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did not succeed in saying anything of it; his passion mastered her. She tried to calm him, to calm herself, but it was too late. His feeling infected her. Her lips trembled so that for a long while she could say nothing." "Yes, you have conquered me, and I am yours," she said at last, pressing his hands to her bosom. "So it had to be," he said. .. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 556e012 | She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the worse. [...] He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. | relevant truth | Leo Tolstoy | |
| eba8d44 | Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven | heaven kingdom leo-tolstoy peace | Leo Tolstoy | |
| dd96476 | It is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror! | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| cefc5e5 | I turned my attention to every thing that was done by people who claimed to be Christians, I was horrified. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 2c44e83 | Like the majority of irreproachably virtuous women, wearying often of the monotony of a virtuous life, Dolly from a distance excused illicit love, and even envied it a little. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 71f8531 | It was all so strange, so unlike what he had been looking forward to. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 3ff6356 | And so there was no single cause for war, but it happened simply because it had to happen | tolstoy war | Leo Tolstoy | |
| da9a8af | Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 617c030 | Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment. Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy | fear-of-failure fearlessness soul | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 9f939ce | If you prefer it, Your Excellency, a private room will be free directly: Prince Golitsin with a lady. Fresh oysters have come in." "Ah, oysters!" Stepan Arkadyevich became thoughtful. "How if we were to change our program, Levin?" he said, keeping his finger on the bill of fare. And his face expressed serious hesitation. "Are the oysters good? Mind, now!" "They're Flensburg, Your Excellency. We've no Ostend." "Flensburg will do -- but are t.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 579b908 | Is it possible to love a woman who will never understand the profoundest interests of my life? Is it possible to love a woman simply for her beauty, to love the statue of a woman? | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| b13f2a3 | there is a kind of business, called Government service, which allows men to treat other men as things without having human brotherly relations with them; and that they should be so linked together by this Government service that the responsibility for the results of their deeds should not fall on any one of them individually. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| c50a1c0 | As the sun and each atom of ether is a shphere complete in itself, yet at the same time only a part of a whole too vast for man to comprehend, so each individual bears within himself his own purpose, yet bears it ot serve a general purpose unfathomable to man. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| bf522c5 | Whatever answers faith gives, regardless of which faith, or to whom the answers are given, such answers always give an infinite meaning to the finite existence of man; a meaning that is not destroyed by suffering, deprivation or death. This means that only in faith can we find the meaning and possibility of life. I realized that the essential meaning of faith lies not only in the 'manifestations of things unseen', and so on, or in revelatio.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 6da2c25 | 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 all around her. | romance | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 78d1610 | During that summer Nekhludoff experienced that exaltation which youth comes to know not by the teaching of others, but when it naturally begins to recognize the beauty and importance of life, and man's serious place in it; when it sees the possibility of infinite perfection of which the world is capable, and devotes itself to that endeavor, not only with the hope, but with a full conviction of reaching that perfection which it imagines poss.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 64b2200 | Faith is neither hope nor trust, but a particular spiritual state. Faith is man's awareness that his position in the world obliges him to perform certain actions. A person acts according to his faith, not as the catechism says because he believes in things unseen as in things seen, nor because he wishes to achieve things hoped for, but simply because having defined his position in the world it is natural for him to act according to it. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a76be7e | Does it ever happen to you," Natasha said to her brother, when they had settled in the sitting room, "does it ever happen to you that you feel there's nothing more - nothing; that everything good has already happened? And it's not really boring, but sad?" "As if it doesn't!" he said. "It's happened to me that everything's fine, everybody's merry, and it suddenly comes into my head that it's all tiresome and we all ought to die...." | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 5fef55b | In that brief glance Vronsky has time to notice the restrained animation that played over her face and fluttered between her shining eyes and the barely noticeable smile that curved her red lips. It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed itself beyond her will, now in the brightness of her glance, now in her smile. She deliberately extinguished the light in her her eyes, but it shone against her will in a.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 720b9ad | Indeed, a bird is made in such a way that it can fly, gather food and build a nest, and when I see a bird doing these things I rejoice. Goats, hares and wolves are made in order to eat, multiply and feed their families, and when they do this I feel quite sure that they are happy and that their lives are meaningful. What should a man do? He too must work for his existence, just as the animals do, but with the difference that he will perish i.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 8b3880f | Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it is one of them. It is caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But because it sees and moves itself, it holds things in a circle around itself. Things are an annex or prolongation of my body; they are incrusted in its flesh, they are part of its full definition; the world is made of the very stuff of the body. These reversals, these antinomies, are differ.. | Maurice Merleau-Ponty | ||
| 6143a3d | The Crystal Wind is the Storm, and the Storm is Data, and the Data is Life. | Daniel Keys Moran | ||
| 382bd75 | His brows rose. "And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?" "I'm a governess," she said. Because really, that ought to be explanation enough." | anne daniel julia-quinn | Julia Quinn | |
| 786bb48 | We are going to pick up our instruments and play Mozart," Honoria announced. "And we are going to do it with smiles on our faces." "I have no idea what any of you are talking about," Daisy said. "I will play," Sarah said, "but I make no promises about a smile." She looked at the piano and blinked. "And I am not picking up my instrument." Iris actually giggled. Then her eyes lit up. "I could help you." "Pick it up?" Iris's grin grew positive.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 8196e9b | I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 43c93ea | There was a huge difference between dislike and disregard. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 673ecb8 | I"m going to kill her," Francesca said to no one in particular. Which was probably a good thing, as there was no one else present. "Who are you talking to?" Hyacinth demanded. "God," Francesca said baldly. "And I do believe I have been given divine leave to murder you." "Hmmph," was Hyacinth"s response. "If it was that easy, I"d have asked permission to eliminate half the ton years ago." Francesca decided just then that not all of Hyacinth".. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 33fd700 | He watched her as she carried the stone over to one of the walls and set it down. She exhaled and wiped her brow. Then she glared at him. He smiled--one of his best, he thought. "You ought to bend your legs when you lift the stones," he called out. "It's better for your back." "It's better for your back," she mimicked under her breath, "lazy, good-for-nothing, stupid little--" "Excuse me?" "Thank you for your advice." Her voice was sweetnes.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 6904a00 | Then, with a cheeky quirk of his brows, he leaned forward and murmured, "Would it be improper of me to admit that I am inordinately flattered by your attention to the details of my face?" Anne snorted out a laugh. "Improper and ludicrous." "It is true that I have never felt quite so colorful," he said, with a clearly feigned sigh. "You are a veritable rainbow," she agreed. "I see red and . . . well, no orange and yellow, but certainly green.. | anne daniel julia-quinn | Julia Quinn | |
| 532d5fa | I'm trying to embroider." Hyacinth held up her handiwork as proof. "You're trying to avoid--" Her mother stopped, blinking. "I say, why does that flower have an ear?" "It's not an ear." Hyacinth looked down. "And it's not a flower." "Wasn't it a flower yesterday?" "I have a very creative mind," Hyacinth ground out, giving the blasted flower another ear. "That," Violet said, "has never been in any doubt." Hyacinth looked down at the mess on .. | Julia Quinn | ||
| cbdb1f1 | You're charm can be terrifying." "I suppose if you put it that way I cannot help but be complimented." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 585d0bd | Happiness could be like a head cold. Or cholera. Catching. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 0b664a7 | I thought you wanted food," she gasped. "I do," he murmured, tugging on the bodice of her dress. "But I want you more." | penelope-bridgerton | Julia Quinn | |
| d6a9617 | Because if he looked like he was unaffected by her smile, then she would not realize that, in actuality, he was in an utter panic because somewhere deep down inside he'd realized that his life had just changed forever. | Julia Quinn | ||
| cdba9ec | Forget This was much closer to | Julia Quinn |