In order not to give myself up to the desire to kill him on the spot, I felt compelled to treat him cordially.
Leo TolstoyEach time of life has its own kind of love.
Leo TolstoyIk zal met mijn verstand niet kunnen begrijpen waarom ik bid en toch zal ik blijven bidden.
Leo TolstoyI felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo TolstoyIt was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove without catching hold, and it was impossible to stop turning it.
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What is the matter with you?" asked Shcherbatsky.
"Nothing much, but there is little to be happy about in this world."
"Little? You'd better come with me to Paris instead of going to some Mulhausen or other. You'll see how jolly it will be!"
"No, I have done with that; it is time for me to die."
"That is a fine thing!" said Shcherbatsky, laughing. "I am only just beginning to live."
"Yes, I thought so too till lately; but now I know that I shall soon die."
Levin was saying what of late he had really been thinking. He saw death and the apprroach of death in everything; but the work he had begun interested him all the more. After all, he had to live his life somehow, til death came. Everything for him was wrapped in darkness; but just because of the darkness, feeling his work to be the only thread to guide him through the darkness, he seized upon it and clung to it with all his might.
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Последнее время мне стало жить тяжело. Я вижу, я стал понимать слишком много.
Leo TolstoyHay tantas mentes, como hombres y tantas clases de amor, como corazones
Leo TolstoyThe assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say to another
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