Let them judge me as they like, I could deceive them, but myself I cannot deceive...and strange to say, in this acknowledgement of his baseness there was something painful yet joyful and quieting. More than once in Nekhlyudov's life there had been what he called, 'a cleansing of the soul.' A state of mind in which, after a long period of sluggish inner life...he began to clear out all the rubbish that had accumulated in his soul and caused the cessation of true life. After such an awakening, Nekhlyudov always made some rules for himself...wrote in his diary, began afresh...
Leo TolstoyTag: leo-tolstoy-anna-karenina ressurrection
The difference between what he had been then and what he now was, was enormous...Then he was free and fearless...now he felt himself caught in the meshes of a stupid, empty, valueless, frivolous life...He remembered how proud he was at one time of his straightforwardness, how he had made a rule of always speaking the truth...and he was now sunk deep in lies...lies considered as truth by all who surrounded him.
Leo TolstoyTag: leo-tolstoy ressurrection
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Leo Tolstoy…the role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous….
Leo TolstoyI think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.
Leo TolstoyTag: love anna-karenina
Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.
Leo TolstoyTag: life inspirational happiness contentment
For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days?" said the ambassador's wife.
"What's to be done? It's a foolish old fashion that's kept up still," said Vronsky.
Se você tiver qualquer pensamento para mim que você vai me dar de volta a minha paz!''
''Não pode haver paz para nós, só miséria, e a maior felicidade.
Tag: anna-karenina leon-tostoy
The prince enjoyed unusually good health even among princes; both by gymnastic exercises and by taking good care of his body he had brought himself to such a state of physical fitness that in spite of the excesses he indulged in when enjoying himself, he looked as fresh as a big shiny green Dutch cucumber.
Leo TolstoyTag: humor
O homem não tem poder sobre nada enquanto tem medo da morte. E quem não tem medo da morte possui tudo.
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