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“The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.”

Leo Tolstoy book A Confession

Source: Confession (1882), Ch. 5, translated by David Patterson, 1983
Source: A Confession

“And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“A king is history's slave.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Bk. IX, ch. 1
Source: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)

“God is the same everywhere.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“Life did not stop, and one had to live.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.”

Leo Tolstoy

Source: Anna Karenina Notes

“Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Bk. XV, ch. 1
Source: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)

“He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: Война и мир

“I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.”

Leo Tolstoy

“Enough or not… it will have to do”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.”

Leo Tolstoy

“As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.”

Leo Tolstoy book What is my faith

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/42064-as-long-as-there-are-slaughter-houses-there-will-always/ What I believe, 1885

“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“One must be cunning and wicked in this world.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina