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 TolstoyStichwörter: love levin anna-karenina
Therein is the whole business of one’s life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing.
Leo TolstoyI feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.
Leo TolstoyStichwörter: pierre
And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the slight fog it diffused in his brain.
Leo TolstoyWhat is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!
Leo TolstoyStichwörter: insightful birth-prevention
Suppose a problem in psychology was set: What can be done to persuade the men of our time — Christians, humanitarians or, simply, kindhearted people — into committing the most abominable crimes with no feeling of guilt? There could be only one way: to do precisely what is being done now, namely, to make them governors, inspectors, officers, policemen, and so forth; which means, first, that they must be convinced of the existence of a kind of organization called ‘government service,’ allowing men to be treated like inanimate objects and banning thereby all human brotherly relations with them; and secondly, that the people entering this ‘government service’ must be so unified that the responsibility for their dealings with men would never fall on any one of them individually.
Leo TolstoyStichwörter: resurrection
Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one's suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering.
Leo Tolstoythe very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.
Leo TolstoyCan it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?
Leo TolstoyNo teško je nezadovoljnu čovjeku da ne kori bilo koga drugoga, i to upravo onoga tko mu je najbliži, za ono zbog čega je nezadovoljan.
Leo TolstoyStichwörter: ana-karenjina lav-tolstoj
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