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| 7562a4e | I cannot think of those years without horror, loathing and heartache. I killed men in war and challenged men to duels in order to kill them. I lost at cards, consumed the labour of the peasants, sentenced them to punishments, lived loosely, and deceived people. Lying, robbery, adultery of all kinds, drunkenness, violence, murder--there was no crime I did not commit, and in spite of that people praised my conduct and my contemporaries consid.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 917aa97 | The shore was God, the stream was tradition, and the oars were the free will given to me to make it to the shore where I would be joined with God. Thus the force of life was renewed within me, and I began to live once again. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 2748a4c | Esli dobro imeet prichinu, ono uzhe ne dobro; esli ono imeet posledstvie -- nagradu, ono tozhe ne dobro. Stado byt', dobro vne tsepi prichin i sledstvii. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 71ae7b5 | Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 7d7f735 | Every violent reform deserves censure, for it quite fails to remedy evil while men remain what they are, and also because wisdom needs no violence. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 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 .. | leo-tolstoy quote story | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 1e2bcc6 | Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbor and not to throttle him?. They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 81d6c6f | Nikolushka and his upbringing, Andre, and religion were Princess Marya's comforts and joys; but, besides that, since every human being needs his personal hope, Princess Marya had in the deepest recesses of her soul a hidden dream and hope, which provided the main comfort of her life. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| ee1e7bd | One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.' 'But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...' 'Life won't leave one alone as it is. | meaning philosophy purpose | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 3e71fd1 | Levin had often noticed in arguments between even the most intelligent people that after enormous efforts, an enormous number of logical subtleties and words, the arguers would finally come to the awareness that what they had spent so long struggling to prove to each other had been known to them long, long before, from the beginning of the argument, but that they loved different things and therefore did not want to name what they loved, so .. | 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 | |
| 6e3b5d4 | Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. | hypocrisy | Leo Tolstoy | |
| b420485 | The greater number of the young women, who envied Anna and had long been weary of hearing her called virtuous, rejoiced at the fulfillment of their predictions, and were only waiting for a decisive turn in public opinion to fall upon her with all the weight of their scorn. They were already making ready their handfuls of mud to fling at her when the right moment arrived. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 1a826e5 | When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing below wants to eat it? Nothing is the cause. All this is only the coincidence of conditions in which all vital organic and elemental events occur. And the botanist who finds that the apple falls because the c.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| f28df35 | In youth, the powers of the mind are directed wholly to the future, and that future assumes such various, vivid, and alluring forms under the influence of hope; hope based, not upon the experience of the past, but upon an assumed possibility of happiness to come, that dreams of expected felicity constitute in themselves the true happiness of that period of our life. Only God Himself knows whether those blessed dreams of youth were ridiculou.. | 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 | |
| 0d060f8 | This is dreadful! Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity--that of sympathy and pity toward living creatures like himself--and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life! | morals vegetarianism | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 37e08f1 | One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And what is there? Who is there?--there beyond that field, that tree, that roof lit up by the sun? No one knows, but one wants to know. You fear and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will inevitably have to le.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 1ba45a6 | History flows neither from the past nor to the future alone: it reverses its course and, when you get right down to it, flows from all the presents. | Maurice Merleau-Ponty | ||
| 5be3309 | the real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent... | merleau-ponty probable reality | Maurice Merleau-Ponty | |
| 30de92f | There is a marvelous ambiguity to the ego: on the one hand it is an ordinary part of the world, one of many things that inhabit it. It occupies space, endures through time, has physical and psychic features, and interacts causally with other things in the world: if it falls, it falls like any other body; if it is pushed, it topples over like any other thing; if treated with chemicals, it reacts like any living organism; if light rays hit it.. | Robert Sokolowski | ||
| c080a64 | The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you couldn't see it for what it was. | paradox | Paul La Farge | |
| a7a8ff2 | When you mature intellectually we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally you may not even want me. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| e41e6ba | One of the key practical lessons of modern neuroscience is that the power to direct our attention has within it the power to shape our brain's firing patterns, as well as the power to shape the architecture of the brain itself. | Daniel J. Siegel | ||
| 876cbe8 | The depressing thing is that so many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| e17568b | They would always find excuses to slip away, afraid to reveal the narrowness of their knowledge. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| abca5c4 | Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men. A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger. | philosophy psychology science-fiction | Daniel Keyes | |
| e9142e6 | Am I a genius? I don't think so. Not yet anyway. As Burt would put it, mocking the euphemisms of educational jargon, I'm exceptional-a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of gifted and deprived (which used to mean bright and retarded) and as soon as exceptional begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression only as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody. Exceptional refers to b.. | flowers-for-algernon | Daniel Keyes | |
| bf244df | How delightful! Dunford had just come into an unexpected inheritance. She rather hoped it was something good. One of her friends had just unwillingly inherited thirty-seven cats. | inheritance | Julia Quinn | |
| c18ef49 | But when he said he couldn't shoot, it just seemed to make an odd sort of sense to tell him that Hermione couldn't dance. It fit, really. Men were supposed to shoot, and women were supposed to dance, and trusty best friends were supposed to keep their foolish mouths shut. Clearly, all three of them needed a bit of instruction. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 33123c9 | Let it be said, Marcus thought dryly,that nothing cooled a man's ardor like the Crusades. | Julia Quinn | ||
| e401a7f | He always smelled like warm wood and brandy, even when he hadn't had a drop of drink. Funny how he managed that. Funny how his smell was in her bed. Henry's eyelids fluttered open. Funny how he was in her bed. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 98b79b6 | Come along, Sally," she called out to her maid, who was lagging at least a dozen steps behind. "it's eraly," Sally moaned. "It's half seven," Olivia told her, holding steady for a few moments to allow Sally to catch up. "That's early." "Normally, I would agree with you, but as it happens I believe I am turning over a new leaf. Just see how lovely it is outside. The sun is shinning, there is music in the air..." "I hear no music," Sally grum.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 9f9e410 | What is this 'baronet'?" the prince asked. "Endlessly in between," Harry replied with a sigh. "A bit like purgatory, really." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 9872110 | It's good that you can be horrid when neccesary. It's a useful skill." She leaned on her elbow, settling her chin onto her hand. "Funny, my brother never seemed to think so." | Julia Quinn | ||
| f33c68c | It's because she doesn't have eyelashes," Daisy said. Iris turned to her with complete calm and said, "I hate you." "That's a terrible thing to say, Daisy," Honoria said, turning on her with a stern expression. It was true that Iris was extraordinarily pale, with the kind of strawberry blond hair that seemed to render her lashes and brows almost invisible. But she'd always thought Iris was absolutely gorgeous, almost ethereal-looking. "If s.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| aba80a2 | That sounded good," Daisy said with surprise. "It sounded like a fish vomiting," Sarah said into the piano. "A charming image," Honoria remarked. "I don't think fish do vomit," Daisy remarked, "and if they did, I don't think it would sound like--" | Julia Quinn | ||
| 251fc2c | Iris was interrupted by a resounding crash. Or not exactly a crash. More like a splintering sound. With a few pops. And twangs. "What was that?" Iris asked. "I don't know." Honoria craned her neck. "It sounded like--" "Oh, Honoria!" they heard Daisy shriek. "Your violin!" "What?" Honoria walked slowly toward the commotion, not quite able to put two and two together. "Oh, my heavens," Iris said abruptly, her hand coming to her mouth. She lay.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 5c6d191 | Blake looked around and gulped. He'd forgotten about the mess on the floor. Chamber pot shards, his shaving kit, a towel or two... "I... ah..." It seemed to him that it was far easier to lie for the sake of national security than it was to his older sister. "Is that a bar of soap stuck to the wall?" Penelope asked. "Um... yes, it appears to be." -- | soap | Julia Quinn | |
| 2c370f1 | Grace-" He scowled, then laughed. "What the devil is your middle name?" "Catriona." she whispered. "Grace Catriona Eversleigh," he said, loud and sure, "I love you." | Julia Quinn | ||
| ea74c34 | The world seemed somehow different when one was lying down. Darker, more dangerous ... And in that moment, as he slowly closed the distance between them, he became her entire world. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 07137e0 | You've already danced with him," Louisa said. Annabel nodded. "I know." "People will talk." Annabel turned and blinked, trying to set her cousin's face into focus. "People are already talking," she said. Louisa opened her mouth as if she planned to say more, but then she just smiled. "Annabel Winslow," she said softly, "I do believe you are falling in love." That snapped Annabel right out of her daze. "I'm not." "Oh, you are." "I hardly kno.. | bevelstoke julia-quinn sebastian-grey ten-things-i-love-about-you | Julia Quinn | |
| 696bb49 | You'll lose your audience and then where will we be? We have future gray-eyed babies to feed, you know. | bevelstoke julia-quinn sebastian-grey ten-things-i-love-about-you | Julia Quinn | |
| 4574b78 | This has been a perfect day," Anne said quietly. "Almost," Daniel whispered, and then she was in his arms again. He kissed her, but it was different this time. Less urgent. Less fiery. The touch of their lips was achingly soft, and maybe it didn't make her feel crazed, like she wanted to press herself against him and take him within her. Maybe instead he made her feel weightless, as if she could take his hand and float away, just as long a.. | daniel | Julia Quinn |