It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over."
"Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.
Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.
Leo TolstoyWhy am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise."
"Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I...
How can he talk like that?" thought Pierre. He considered his friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the highest degree just the very qualities Pierre lacked, and which might be best described as strength of will.
Leo TolstoyThere are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those about him.
Leo TolstoyTag: neutrality
A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard.
And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, flared up with greater brightness than she had ever known, revealing to her all that before was in darkness, then flickered, grew faint, and went out
forever.
In historical events great men-so called-are but the labels that serve to give a mane to an event, and like labels, they have the last possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity.
Leo TolstoyTag: war-and-peace
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Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One should never overdo
Leo TolstoyTag: inspirational
Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess
Leo TolstoyTag: inspirational
A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.
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