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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it


Leo Tolstoy


#despair #leo-tolstoy #love #sadness #beauty

Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand


Leo Tolstoy


#leo-tolstoy #life #life-philosophy #life

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.


Leo Tolstoy


#dishonesty #intellect #pride #stupidity #tolstoy

The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work.


Leo Tolstoy


#banks #earnings #labor #leo-tolstoy #monopolies

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.


Leo Tolstoy


#beauty #charm #diversity #leo-tolstoy #beauty

Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere near it. Furthermore, the idea underlying it shows that it is ours, ours, something that belongs to us alone and that is our own property, our own national 'new word'or, at any rate, the beginning of it.


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#dostoyevsky #tolstoy #art

I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.


Leo Tolstoy


#love #love

All families are happy, all families are alike.


Doestevetsky


#family

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.


Leo Tolstoy


#love #tolstoy #love

It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it,


Leo Tolstoy


#love






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