For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
Does it ever happen to you, Natasha said to her brother, when they had settled in the sitting room, does it ever happen to you that you feel there's nothing more - nothing; that everything good has al...
Consider the death of the body in terms of God and His law. Your life, the life within you, encompasses everything within itself -- not only those whom you have lost but everything -- it includes God...
Can it be that I have not lived as one ought? suddenly came into his head. But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?
At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of g...
As it was before, so it was now; I need only be aware of God to live; I need only forget Him, or disbelieve Him, and I died.What is this animation and dying? I do not live when I lose belief in the ex...
Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .
And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered,...
And I, too, am the same… only there is no love in my heart, or desire for love, no interest in work, not contentment in myself. And how remote and impossible my old religious enthusiasms seem now… and...
After dinner Natasha went to the clavichord, at Prince Andrey's request, and began singing. Prince Andrey stood at the window, talking to the ladies, and listened to her. In the middle of a phrase, Pr...
A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.
A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred millions. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail to grasp what these words mean. What does it mean that thirty thousan...
The aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment.
She still found no words in which she could express the complexity of her feelings; indeed, she could not even find thoughts in which she could clearly think out all that was in her soul.
التنبه الدائم، العمل، الصراع، الحرمان بشتى أنواعه، هذه كلها شروط ضرورية لايجوز لأحد أن يتجرأ حتى على الحلم بالخروج منها ولو للحظة واحدة. علينا كي نعيش بشرف أن تنمزق، أن نسخط على أنفسنا، أن نقاتل، أن ن...
إن الحياة العسكرية في حد ذاتها مفسدة للرجال، إذ تجعلهم في حالة بطالة تكاد تكون مستمرة أو عل الأقل في حالة انقطاع عن كل عمل مفيد ومعقول وفي حينا ترفع عن كواهلهم سائر الواجبات الانسانية، فإنها تضفي عليه...
The children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold in the sand, and in her bad moments she saw only the griefs, only sand; but t...
She smiled at him, and at her own fears.
Excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.