لم تكن بحاجة لتتساءل : لمَ كان هنا . كانت تعلم حق العلم ، كما لو أنه هو الذي أنبأها بذلك، أنه كان هنا ليكون حيث تكون .
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...
«But you are talking of physical love. Do you not admit a love based upon a conformity of ideals, on a spiritual affinity?»«Why not? But in that case it is not necessary to procreate together (excuse...
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.
[from ]For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for the artist treating of a man's relation to all sides of life there cannot and should not be heroes, but there...
[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.
Who am I? I am that which thou hast searched for since thy baby eyes gazed wonderingly upon the world, whose horizon hides this real life from thee. I am that which in thy heart thou hast prayed for,...
What is the law of nature? Is it to know that my security and that of my family, all my amusements and pleasures, are purchased at the expense of misery, deprivation, and suffering to thousands of hum...
We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them
They say that that's a difficult task, that nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful, he began with a smile. But I'll try. Get me a subject. It all lies in the subject. If a subject's given me, it's easy...
Therein is the whole business of one’s life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing.
There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.
There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life which is the more free the more abstract it's interests, and his elemental swarm-life in which he inevitably obeys laws laid down for...
Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.
Then as now much time was spent arguing about the rights of women, husband-and-wife relationships and freedom and rights within marriage, but Natasha had no interest in any such questions.Questions li...
The younger sister was piqued, and in turn disparaged the life of a tradesman, and stood up for that of a peasant.I would not change my way of life for yours, said she. We may live roughly, but at lea...
The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without lov...
The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.
The soul of man is the lamp of God,’ says a wise Jewish proverb. Man is a weak and miserable creature when God’s light is not burning in his soul. But when it burns (and it only burns in souls enlight...
The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.