Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .
And then all at once love turns up, and you're done for, done for.
All that exists is One. People only call this One by different names.
They meet, as we shall meet tomorrow, to murder one another; they kill and maim tens of thousands, and then have thanksgiving services for having killed so many people (they even exaggerate the number...
We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life.
No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which...
إن الإنسان يمكنه أن يعيش بلا أب أو أم، ولكنه لا يمكنه ذلك بدون رحمة الله
Всички щастливи семейства си приличат, всяко нещастно семейство е нещастно по своему.
There are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence.
She smiled at him, and at her own fears.
You are all misleading one another, and are yourselves deceived. The sun does not go round the earth, but the earth goes round the sun, revolving as it goes, and turning towards the sun in the course...
Why 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 forge...
When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind sha...
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.- Vronksy {Anna Karenina}
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
To take the simplest example: one man laughs, and another, who hears, becomes merry; or a man weeps, and another, who hears, feels sorrow. A man is excited or irritated, and another man, seeing him, c...
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling tha...
Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but the pain, nothing but sand; but there were good moments too when she saw nothing bu...
They had to return to the one sure and never-failing resource- slander.
These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and...