“ One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking about Einstein. Hardy had met him several times, and I had recently returned… C.P. Snow
“ The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went… Leo Tolstoy
“ Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will. Leo Tolstoy
“ The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so… Leo Tolstoy
“ Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is rig… Leo Tolstoy
“ Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of a woman whom we may call B, who is young and happy and has seen nothing as yet of life or of the world.… Leo Tolstoy
“ In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, linked together, would be the expression of myself, though each individual idea, expressed separately i… Leo Tolstoy
“ She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as… Leo Tolstoy
“ He understood that feeling of Levin's so well, knew that for Levin all the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included alll the girls in the world except her, and they had all… Leo Tolstoy
“ All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade. Leo Tolstoy
“ I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change. Leo Tolstoy
“ I think love, both kinds of love, which you remember Plato defines in his Symposium - both kinds of love serve a touchstone for men. Some men understand only the one, some only the other. Those who un… Leo Tolstoy
“ No family, happy or unhappy, is quite like any other. Tolstoy was chock-fullo’shit. Remember that. A.J. Finn
“ Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand Leo Tolstoy
“ He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it Leo Tolstoy
