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Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Aleksey Aleksandrovich had lived.

Leo Tolstoy

As though tears were the indispensable oil without which the machinery of mutual confidence could not run smoothly between the two sister, the sisters after their tears talked, not of what was uppermost in their minds, but though they talked of outside matters, they understood each other.

Leo Tolstoy

For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.

Leo Tolstoy

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

Leo Tolstoy

Himmlisch ist's, wenn ich bezwugen
Meine irdische Begier;
Aber doch wenn's nicht gelungen,
Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir!"*

*"Splendid if I overcome
My earthy passion,
But if I succeed not,
Still I have known happiness!

Leo Tolstoy