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“What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer…”

Leo Tolstoy The Kingdom of God Is Within You

Source: The Kingdom of God Is Within You

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

Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Source: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), Ch. II
Source: The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

“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 book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before…”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.”

Leo Tolstoy book What Is Art?

Source: What Is Art?

“Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?”

Leo Tolstoy

Source: The Death of Ivan Ilych

“she smiled at him, and at her own fears.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.”

Leo Tolstoy

“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Variant: The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Source: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Ch. I

“Teach French and unteach sincerity.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina