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If there be a single law governing the actions of men, freewill cannot exist, for man's will would be subject to that law. — Leo Tolstoy

Where there's law there's injustice, — Leo Tolstoy

The one who is happy, that's the one who is right. — Leo Tolstoy

I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world. — Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body. — Leo Tolstoy

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair! — Leo Tolstoy

What's all this love of arguing? No one ever convinces anyone else. — Leo Tolstoy

Oh, how happy I am to have found it at last. Yes! It's all vanity, it's all an illusion, everything except that infinite sky. — Leo Tolstoy

Salvation does not lie in the rituals and profession of faith, but in a lucid understanding of the meaning of one's life. — Leo Tolstoy

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. — Leo Tolstoy

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable. — Leo Tolstoy

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man. — Leo Tolstoy

Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new. — Leo Tolstoy

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death
but it's more peaceful. — Leo Tolstoy

When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas. — Paul Auster

Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step! — Leo Tolstoy

Another's wife is a white swan, and ours is bitter wormwood. — Leo Tolstoy

We are conscious of the force of man's life, and we call it freedom — Leo Tolstoy

If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy. — Abhijit Naskar

Their attitude seemed to result from incomprehension rather than cruelty, but as Tolstoy would have said, what's the difference in the end? — Atul Gawande

[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine. — Edward Abbey

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person. — Leo Tolstoy

Nothing does harm if one's mind is at peace. — Leo Tolstoy

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment. — Leo Tolstoy

Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over. — Leo Tolstoy

For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable. — Leo Tolstoy

What could all that matter in comparison with the will of God, without Whose care not a hair of man's head can fall? — Leo Tolstoy

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — Haruki Murakami

It's bad to be unable to stand solitude. — Leo Tolstoy

Ferreting in one's soul, one often ferrets out something that might have lain there unnoticed. — Leo Tolstoy

Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it. — Leo Tolstoy

Has been argued with some justification that it is Anna's growing sense of bleak isolation that is the essence of her tragedy. There — Leo Tolstoy

The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions. — Leo Tolstoy

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life — Leo Tolstoy

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary. — Leo Tolstoy

An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply la constatation d'un fait. — Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy's characters seem to come forward to meet you, very conscious of the impression they are making on one another and on the reader. — Stephen Spender

Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her. — Leo Tolstoy

And do you know, there's less charm in life, when one thinks of death, but there's more peace. — Leo Tolstoy

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen. — Leo Tolstoy

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it. — Leo Tolstoy

Above him was a clear blue sky, and the sun's vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist. — Leo Tolstoy

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible. — Leo Tolstoy

It all depends with how much judgment and knowledge the thing's done. — Leo Tolstoy

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day. — Leo Tolstoy

Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people
that's in your hands. — Leo Tolstoy

Unfortunately, as Tolstoy said, "Everyone wants to change the world, but no one wants to change themselves." Let's hope there are exceptions. — Anonymous

A moment's pain can be a lifetime's gain. — Leo Tolstoy

I've got four sons in the army, but I'm not crying about it. It's all in God's hands: you may die in your bed, or God may spare you in battle, — Leo Tolstoy

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore. — Leo Tolstoy

In spite of Stepan Arkadyevitch's efforts to be an attentive father and husband, he never could keep in his mind that he had a wife and children. — Leo Tolstoy

But I am alive still. Now what's to be done? what's to be done? he said in despair. — Leo Tolstoy

Jealousy according to his notions was an insult to one's wife, and one ought to have confidence in one's wife — Leo Tolstoy

It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it. — Leo Tolstoy

He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend's eyes, evidently trying in vain to find the answer to some question. — Leo Tolstoy

Love provides the person with the purpose of his life. Intellect shows him the means to achieve that purpose. Leo Tolstoy — Robin S. Sharma

Tolstoy's famous line, all happiness is alike, but each pain is painful in its own way. — Haruki Murakami

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over."
"Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination. — Leo Tolstoy

That's it, come on! — Leo Tolstoy

For the general good, he could not stop short for the sake of one man's life. — Leo Tolstoy

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love. — Leo Tolstoy

That's the way. Lay me down like a stone, O God, and raise me up like a loaf,' he muttered as he lay down, pulling his coat over him. — Leo Tolstoy

As is so often the case, was not so much annoyed at the fact itself as at the way in which he had met his wife's words. — Leo Tolstoy

Good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere. — Bel Kaufman

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. — Leo Tolstoy

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got. — Leo Tolstoy

There's a way out of every situation. — Leo Tolstoy

Therein is the whole business of one's life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing. — Leo Tolstoy

For the artist treating of man's relation to all sides of life there cannot and should not be heroes, but there should be men. — Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception. — Raphael Soyer

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife. — Leo Tolstoy

It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome. — Leo Tolstoy

So that's what it is!" he suddenly exclaimed aloud. "What joy! — Leo Tolstoy

To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings. — Leo Tolstoy

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling. — Leo Tolstoy

You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to. — Tom Stoppard

One may say with one's lips: 'I believe that God is one, and also three' - but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense. — Leo Tolstoy

[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer. — Paul Auster

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. — A. N. Wilson

God knows, but He's waiting — Leo Tolstoy

And the most awful thing about it is that it's all my fault - all my fault, though I'm not to blame. — Leo Tolstoy

All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy

It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused. — Leo Tolstoy

The story told about him at Count Rostov's was true. Pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. He — Leo Tolstoy

A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse. — Leo Tolstoy

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy. — Leo Tolstoy

We must live. We must love. And we must believe that there's more to it all than our lives on this scrap of earth. — Leo Tolstoy

It's hard to love a woman and do anything. — Leo Tolstoy

Nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful. — Leo Tolstoy

John Dewey was right that "failure is instructive," then Tolstoy's life is, well, an instructional gold mine. — Leo Tolstoy

A king is history's slave. — Leo Tolstoy

You know I can't stand Shakespeare's plays, but yours are even worse. — Leo Tolstoy

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace. — J.G. Ballard

Oh God. He's quoting Tolstoy and touching me. I'm done for. — Helena Hunting

These stupid chignons! There's no getting at the real daughter. One simply strokes the bristles of dead women. — Leo Tolstoy

The terrible thing is that it's impossible to tear the past out by the roots. Impossible to tear it out, but possible to hide the memory of it. — Leo Tolstoy

I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy. — Leo Tolstoy

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant! — Leo Tolstoy