Deny your personality, and you will come to understand the highest good in life: love. Leo Tolstoy The less love a person has, the more he suffers. Leo Tolstoy There is no love in the future. Love can exist only in the present moment. A man who does not manifest love in the present...
everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”–Leo Tolstoy
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LEO TOLSTOY,What Is Art? Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated, just as for a ...
In 1862, Tolstoy married Sophie Behrs, a marriage that was to become, for him, bitterly unhappy. His diary, started in 1847, was used for self-study and self-criticism; it served as the source from which he drew much of the material that appeared not only in his great novels War and...
We are asleep until we fall in love The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. —Leo Tolstoy 53 Leo Tolstoy Short Quotes The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes...
The love affair of Anna and Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance of Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance. One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna ...
Tolstoy's great philosophical/religious tract, The Kingdom of God is within you, summarised the development of his thought and reflections on Christianity. At its heart is the explanation of Tolstoy's belief that to truly call one's self a Christian one must abide simply by the teachings of...
Leo Tolstoy s Anna Karenina startled the world with its powerful portrayal of the human need for love and happiness weighted against the rigid demands of society. Its heroine, the sensual, rebellious Anna, renounces a respectable yet stifling marriage fo
"I burned this to prove my love for her. I just heated a ruler in the fire and pressed it there!" Sitting on the sofa with the little cushions on its arms, in what used to be his old schoolroom, and looking into Natasha's wildly bright eyes, Rostov re-entered that world of home...