The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.
The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her love for Rostov was not then a source of torment or agitation to her. That love had by then filled he...
The further one goes, the better the land seems.
The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad bo...
The Bible legend tells us that the absence of toil - idleness - was a condition of the first man's state of bliss before the Fall. This love of idleness has remained the same in the fallen man, but th...
That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him
Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority. And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special int...
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
Sometimes he remembered having heard how soldiers under fire in the trenches, and having nothing to do, try hard to find some occupation the more easily to bear the danger. It seemed to Pierre that al...
Some mathematician has said that enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in the finding it.
She began to wish he would die; yet she did not want him to die because then his salary would cease. And this irritated her against him still more. She considered herself dreadfully unhappy just becau...
Rostov kept thinking about that brilliant feat of his, which, to his surprise, had gained him the St. George Cross and even given him the reputation of a brave man - and there was something in it that...
Pure, perfect sorrow is as impossible as pure and perfect joy.
Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.
Pierre's insanity consisted in the face that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people's merits, in order to love them, but love overflowed his heart, and loving people...
Perhaps because I rejoice in what I have, and don't fret for what I haven't
Oh, it's awful! oh dear, oh dear! awful! Stepan Arkadyevitch kept repeating to himself, and he could think of nothing to be done. And how well things were going up till now! how well we got on! She wa...
No hay felicidad en la existencia, no hay más que relámpagos de felicidad.
My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons…
Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understan...