Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.
Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful,...
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons…
Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and stood still... Natasha took the first note, her throat swelled, her bosom heaved, a serious express...
Never, never marry, my friend. Here’s my advice to you: don’t marry until you can tell yourself that you’ve done all you could, and until you’ve stopped loving the woman you’ve chosen, until you see h...
Nikolushka and his upbringing, Andre, and religion were Princess Marya's comforts and joys; but, besides that, since every human being needs his personal hope, Princess Marya had in the deepest recess...
Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul, she thought; as for these lofty ideals, love of culture, religion, they are only so many tools for getting on.
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
Nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful.
Nunca seremos amigos, lo sabe usted de sobra. Seremos las personas más felices o las más desdichadas. De usted depende. (...) Sólo le pido una cosa: que me permita concebir esperanzas y seguir sufrien...
Oh no, Papa, Kitty objected warmly. Varenka adores her. And besides, she does so much good! Ask anyone you like! Everybody knows her and Aline Stah. Perhaps, he said, pressing her arm with his elbow....
On the twelfth of June, the forces of Western Europe crossed the borders of Russia, and war began--that is, an event took place contrary to human reason and to the whole of human nature.
One might murder and steal and yet be happy
Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art of integrating them (that is, finding the s...
Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.
Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be h...
Pierre's insanity consisted in not waiting, as he used to do, to discover personal attributes which he termed good qualities in people before loving them; his heart was now overflowing with love, and...
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.
Reason is often the slave of sin; it strives to justify it.
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