“He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died.”
Leo Tolstoy livro Guerra e Paz
Fonte: War and Peace
“He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died.”
Leo Tolstoy livro Guerra e Paz
Fonte: War and Peace
“Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps.”
Leo Tolstoy livro Guerra e Paz
Fonte: War and Peace
“How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?… All will end in death, all!”
Leo Tolstoy livro Guerra e Paz
Fonte: War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy livro A Confession
Fonte: A Confession
Leo Tolstoy livro Anna Karenina
Fonte: Anna Karenina
Fonte: The Death of Ivan Ilych
Leo Tolstoy livro Guerra e Paz
Fonte: War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy livro Anna Karenina
Fonte: Anna Karenina
Tolstoy's Diaries (1985) edited and translated by R. F. Christian. London: Athlone Press, Vol 2, p. 512
Contexto: People usually think that progress consists in the increase of knowledge, in the improvement of life, but that isn't so. Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life. The truth is always accessible to a man. It can't be otherwise, because a man's soul is a divine spark, the truth itself. It's only a matter of removing from this divine spark (the truth) everything that obscures it. Progress consists, not in the increase of truth, but in freeing it from its wrappings. The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold.
“They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.”
Leo Tolstoy livro Anna Karenina
Fonte: Anna Karenina
“But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.”
Leo Tolstoy livro Guerra e Paz
Fonte: War and Peace
“Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more!”
Fonte: The Death of Ivan Ilych