Odurna je životinjska priroda zvjeri u čovjeku, ali kad je ona u čistom obliku, onda je ti s visine svog duševnog života vidiš i prezireš, pa ili pao, ili se održao - ti ostaješ ono što si bio; ali ka...
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...
Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intel...
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.
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...
Natasha was happy as she had never been in her life. She was at that highest pitch of happiness, when one becomes completely good and kind, and disbelieves in the very possibility of evil, unhappiness...
My vague confused dreams became a reality and the reality became an oppressive, difficult, joyless life. All remained the same. Once it seemed so plain and right that to live for others was happiness;...
Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.
It is very difficult to tell the truth, and young people are rarely capable of it.
If a man lives, then he believes in something. If he didn't believe that one must live for something, then he wouldn't live. If he doesn't see and doesn't understand the illusoriness of the finite, he...
I find it difficult now to recall and understand the dreams which then filled my imagination. Even when I can recall them, I find it hard to believe that my dreams were just like that: they were so st...
I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.
I and all men have only one firm, incontestable, clear knowledge, and that knowledge cannot be explained by the reason--it is outside it, and has no causes and can have no effects. If goodness has cau...
How strange, extraordinary, and joyful it was to her to think that her son - the little son, whose tiny limbs had faintly stirred within her twenty years ago, for whose sake she had so often quarreled...
How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!
Himmlisch ist's, wenn ich bezwugenMeine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nicht gelungen, Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir!**Splendid if I overcomeMy earthy passion, But if I succeed not, Still I...
He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure whether what he said was very witty or very stupid.
He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love...
For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days? said the ambassador's wife.What's to be done? It's a foolish old fashion that's kept up still, said Vronsky.