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| 2cfdb3d | Peluru, kamu panas, dan kamu membawa kematian, tetapi bukankah kamu abdiku yang setia? Tanah hitam, kamu akan menyelimutiku, tetapi bukankah aku menginjakmu dengan kudaku? Kamu, maut, kamu dingin, tetapi akulah tuanmu.Tanah akan mengambil tubuhku, langit akan mengambil jiwaku. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 6ebfcda | How good it would be to know where to look for help in this life and what to expect after it, there, beyond the grave! How happy and calm I'd be, if I could say now: Lord, have mercy on me! ... But to whom shall I say it? Either it is an indefinable, unfathomable power, which I not only cannot address, but which I cannot express in words - the great all or nothing...or it is that God of whom Princess Marya has sewn in here, in this amulet? .. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 53ea3ab | but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all existence, so now they seemed as petty and insignificant in comparison with the brilliant sunshine in which the future was bathed. He went on with his work but now he felt that the centre of gravity of his attention had shifted, making him look at his work quite differently and with greater clarity. Formerly.. | work | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 47e2af4 | It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when one begins to think of the sowing for next year, and the mowing is at hand; when the rye is all in ear, though its ears are still light, not yet full, and it waves in gray-green billows in the wind; when the green oats, with tufts of yellow grass scattered here and there among it, droop irregularly over the late-sown fields; w.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 808eff2 | At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion.. | freethinking | Leo Tolstoy | |
| d61d2df | Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was distasteful to her to read, that it, to follow the reflection of other people's lives. She had too great a desire to live herself. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| c7cba3a | So they are even more frightened than we are,' he thought. 'Why, is this all that's meant by heroism? And did I do it for the sake of my country? And was he to blame with his dimple and his blue eyes? How frightened he was! He thought I was going to kill him. Why should I kill him? My hand trembled. And they have given me the St. George's Cross. I can't make it out, I can't make it out! | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| b6cf1ad | They say that that's a difficult task, that nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful," he began with a smile. "But I'll try. Get me a subject. It all lies in the subject. If a subject's given me, it's easy to spin something round it. I often think that the celebrated talkers of the last century would have found it difficult to talk cleverly now. Everything clever is so stale... " | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| f02f47f | Konstantin Levin did not like talking or hearing about the beauty of nature. For him words took away the beauty of what he saw. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a9ef241 | With 6 children Darya Alexandrovna could not be calm. One got sick, another might get sick, a third lacked something, a fourth showed signs of bad character, and so on, and so on. Rarely, rarely would there be short periods of calm but these troubles and anxieties were for Darya Alexandroyna the only possible happiness. Had it not been for them, she would have remained alone with her thoughts of her husband, who did not love her. But beside.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| b64fe1b | She was as easy to recognize in that crowd as a rose among nettles. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 70419da | And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the slight fog it diffused in his brain. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| ec87e6c | No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 966b01a | All human life, we may say, consists solely of these two activities: (1) bringing one's activities into harmony with conscience, or (2) hiding from oneself the indications of conscience in order to be able to continue to live as before. Some do the first, others the second. To attain the first there is but one means: moral enlightenment -- the increase of light in oneself and attention to what it shows. To attain the second -- to hide from .. | conscience intoxication self-forgetfulness spiritual-disease suffering the-unlived-life | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 7c8ae04 | And what is justice? The princess thought of that proud word 'justice'. All the complex laws of man centered for her in one clear and simple law--the law of love and self-sacrifice taught us by Him who lovingly suffered for mankind though He Himself was God. What had she to do with justice or injustice of other people? She had to endure and love, and that she did. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 551cea9 | Rostov was not listening to the soldier. He looked at the snowflakes dancing above the fire and remembered the Russian winter with a warm, bright house, a fluffy fur coat, swift sleighs, a healthy body, and all the love and care of a family. "And why did I come here?" he wondered." | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| c06276d | Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 848a3ae | No matter how old or how sick you are, how much or little you have done, your business in life not only isn't finished, but hasn't yet received its final, decisive meaning until your very last breath. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 734e4c3 | He was much changed and grown even thinner since Pyotr Ivanovich had last seen him, but, as is always the case with the dead, his face was handsomer and above all more dignified than than when he was alive. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| b05e9c5 | Self-conceit is a sentiment entirely incompatible with genuine sorrow, and it is so firmly engrafted on human nature that even the most profound sorrow can seldom expel it altogether. Vanity in sorrow expresses itself by a desire to appear either stricken with grief or unhappy or brave: and this ignoble desire which we do not acknowledge but which hardly ever leaves us even in the deepest trouble robs our grief of its strength, dignity and .. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 125b6f4 | Prije se znalo dogoditi da je slobodni mislilac bio covjek, koji je bio odgojen u pojmovima vjere, zakona i morala, i koji se borbom i naporom sam dovinuo do slobodnog misljenja; ali sada se javlja novi tip samoradnih mislilaca, koji rastu, da nisu ni culi da su postojali zakoni morala, vjere, da je bilo autoriteta, nego koji rastu izravno u pojmovima poricanja svega, to jest kao divljaci. | lav-tolstoj | Leo Tolstoy | |
| c41b5b3 | She danced the dance so well, so well indeed, so perfectly, that Anisya Fyodorovna, who handed her at once the kerchief she needed in the dance, had tears in her eyes, though she laughed as she watched that slender and graceful little countess, reared in silk and velvet, belonging to another world than hers, who was yet able to understand all that was in Anisya and her father and her mother and her aunt and every Russian soul. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 493bb30 | Do not be interested in the quantity of people who respect and admire you, but in their quality. If bad people dislike you, so much the better. --LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 140fee1 | there are only two sources of human vice--idleness and superstition, and only two virtues--activity and intelligence. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 5df00bb | How can he talk like that?" thought Pierre. He considered his friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the highest degree just the very qualities Pierre lacked, and which might be best described as strength of will." | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 7ff909e | This was his acknowledgment of the impossibility of changing a man's convictions by words, and his recognition of the possibility of everyone thinking, feeling, and seeing things each from his own point of view. This legitimate peculiarity of each individual which used to excite and irritate Pierre now became a basis of the sympathy he felt for, and the interest he took in, other people. The difference, and sometimes complete contradiction,.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 446e70f | You're not racing?" joked the officer. "Mine is a harder race," Alexei Alexandrovich replied respectfully. And though the reply did not mean anything, the officer pretended that he had heard a clever phrase from a clever man and had perfectly understood." -- | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 5507b44 | I saw that all who do not profess an identical faith with themselves are considered by the Orthodox to be heretics, just as the Catholics and others consider the Orthodox to be heretics. And i saw that the Orthodox (though they try to hide this) regard with hostility all who do not express their faith by the same external symbols and words as themselves; and this is naturally so; first, because the assertion that you are in falsehood and I .. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 9023fe2 | Brought up with an idea of God, a Christian, my whole life filled with the spiritual blessings Christianity has given me, full of them, and living on those blessings, like the children I did not understand them, and destroy, that is try to destroy, what I live by. And as soon as an important moment of life comes, like the children when they are cold and hungry, I turn to Him, and even less than the children when their mother scolds them for.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 51ed811 | Love them that hate you, but you can't love those you hate. | love | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 7f5639a | Ca era dimineata ori seara, vineri ori duminica -- ii era totuna; era la fel, aceeasi durere surda, chinuitoare, care nu-l lasa o clipa; mereu constiinta vietii care se stinge fara putinta de impotrivire, dar care mai dainuie; moartea care se apropia, cumplita si hada -- numai ea singura era realitatea, iar celelalte toate...minciuna. La ce bun sa mai tii socoteala zilelor, saptamanilor, ceasurilor ? | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 90c7fec | Russia alone is to be the savior of Europe. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 5fe14c0 | Now one often saw only her face and body, while her soul was not seen at all. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| c336aa8 | Hay ... tantas clases de amor como corazones | love | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 49986a1 | Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art of integrating them (that is, finding the sum of these infinitesimals) can we hope to arrive at the laws of history. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 8ee5f4b | One might murder and steal and yet be happy | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 543a10c | The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything. | leo-tolstoy | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 5765174 | I assure you that I sleep anywhere, and always like a dormouse. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 5df73c3 | If there is something great in you, it will not appear on your first call. It will not appear and come to you easily, without any work and effort. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| bcc147c | And what was worst of all was that *It* drew his attention to itself not in order to make him take some action but only that he should look at *It*, look it straight in the face: look at it and without doing anything, suffer inexpressibly. And to save himself from this condition Ivan Ilych looked for consolations -- new screens -- and new screens were found and for a while seemed to save him, but then they immediately fell to pieces or rath.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| d1dc4f1 | God knows of love | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 4917332 | Everything seemed so clear to him now that he could not stop wondering how it was that everybody did not see it, and that he himself had for such a long while not seen what was so clearly evident. The people were dying out, and had got used to the dying-out process, and had formed habits of life adapted to this process...And so gradually had the people come to this condition that they did not realize the full horrors of it, and did not comp.. | landlords money ownership | Leo Tolstoy | |
| d328e44 | I know that most men--not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever, and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic problems--can very seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as to oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty--conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and o.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 13fb184 | It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." --Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata" | L.J. Shen |