Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Flower Quotes, Heart Quotes

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. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.

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It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

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He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

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Enough or not...it will have to do

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The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

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Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

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Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist.

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Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

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You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!

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Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

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The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

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Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

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Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

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And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

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I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

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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.

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He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

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