“One can live splendidly in the world, if one can work and love, work for that which one loves, and love that at which one works.Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
“Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will be—the tragedy of the bedroom.Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
“He [Platon Karataev] did not understand, and could not grasp the significance of words taken apart from the sentence. Every word and every action of his was the expression of a force uncomprehended by him, which was his life.Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
“Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy