Quotes about Tolstoy

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...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?... — John Geddes
And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
I often think with regret of that fresh, beautiful feeling of boundless, disinterested love which came to an end without — Leo Tolstoy, Childhood
What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for af — Leo Tolstoy, Childhood
Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I dep — Leo Tolstoy, Childhood
All great literature is one of two stories — a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of — Yevgeny Zamyatin
In Russia, the person who put Sevastopol on the literary map was Leo Tolstoy, a veteran of the siege. His fictionalized — Constantine Pleshakov, The Crimean Nexus: Putin’s War and the Clash of Civilizations
They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is most important an — Lev Shestov, In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths
if they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other j — Leo Tolstoy
Every novel says to the reader: “Things are not as simple as you think.” That is the novel’s eternal truth, but it grows — Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Ultimately it is the Christian attitude which is self-interested and hedonistic, since the aim is always to get away fro — George Orwell, Inside the Whale and Other Essays
But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment. — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
This, for both Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, is the central tragedy of human life; if only men would learn how little the cl — Isaiah Berlin, The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
God help me, how Tolstoy sweats over drying up people's sources of life, of wild and joyful life, drying them up and mak — Knut Hamsun, Mysteries
The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicate — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alik — Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished — he died.
In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in — J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition