What energy!' I thought. 'Man has conquered everything, and destroyed millions of plants, yet this one won't submit.
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.- Vronksy {Anna Karenina}
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...
Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.
Why ask? Why doubt what you cannot help knowing? Why use words when words cannot express what one feels?
Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy stan...
Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.
Yes, there is something uncanny, demonic and fascinating in her.
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...
You wait a bit, wait a bit, said Stepan Arkadyevitch, smiling and touching his hand. I've told you what I know, and I repeat that in this delicate and tender matter, as far as one can conjecture, I be...
[Pierre] involuntarily started comparing these two men, so different and at the same time so similar, because of the love he had for both of them, and because both had lived and both had died.
Marveling at this boldness and ease in her presence, and not for one second losing sight of her, though he did not look at her. He felt as though the sun were coming near him.
The very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.
There are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence.
Факт смерти близкого знакомого вызвал во всех, узнавших про нее, как всегда, чувство радости о том, что умер он, а не я.
كان يعلم أن لها زوجاً، لكنه لم يؤمن بوجوده، ولم يؤمن بهذا الوجود حقا إلا عندما رآه برأسه ، وكتفيه ، وساقيه في بنطالهما الأسود ، آمن بهذا الوجود ، على الخصوص ، عندما رآي هذا الزوج يتناول بهدوء ذراع آنا...
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.
Seize the moments of happiness, Love and be Loved!That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly!
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