"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, t...












The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.
More Leo Tolstoy quotes
"One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; y...
"To destroy the life that dwells in othersis beyond your power. The life of those you have slainhas vanished from your eyes, but is not destroyed. Yout...
"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolut...
"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
"Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau
"At the time we were all convinced that we had to speak, write,and publish as quickly as possible and as much as possible and that this was necessary f...
"Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time...
"But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of...
"When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hosti...
"There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
"In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had b...
"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,, actio...
"And where love ends, hate begins