I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.
Leo TolstoyTag: leo-tolstoy
In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, linked together, would be the expression of myself, though each individual idea, expressed separately in words, loses its meaning, is horribly debased when only one of the links, of which it forms a part, is taken by itself. But the interlinking of these ideas is not, I think, an intellectual process, but something else, and it is impossible to express the source of this interlinking directly in words; it can only be done indirectly by describing images, actions, and situations in words.
Leo TolstoyTag: writing leo-tolstoy
But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.
Leo TolstoyTag: civilization enjoyment anna-karenina leo-tolstoy
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
Leo TolstoyTag: beauty diversity charm anna-karenina leo-tolstoy
it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
Leo TolstoyTag: good deeds anna-karenina leo-tolstoy
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
Leo TolstoyTag: work capitalism labor honest anna-karenina leo-tolstoy hierarchy dishonest
The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work.
Leo TolstoyTag: work labor banks anna-karenina leo-tolstoy monopolies earnings profits railways
He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.
Leo TolstoyTag: love anna-karenina leo-tolstoy
The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true
Leo TolstoyTag: life death anna-karenina leo-tolstoy
Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand
Leo TolstoyTag: life life-philosophy anna-karenina leo-tolstoy
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