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“I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious. To become oblivious in dreams was impossible now, at least till night-time; it was impossible to return to that music sung by carafe-women; and so one had to become oblivious in the dreams of life.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Pt. 1, ch. 2
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)

“God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling…”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“And where love ends, hate begins”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.”

Leo Tolstoy

“In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.”

Leo Tolstoy

“He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death.

In place of death there was light.”

Leo Tolstoy

Source: The Death of Ivan Ilych

“He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Pt. I, ch. 9
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)