Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj: Frasi in inglese

Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj era scrittore, drammaturgo, filosofo, pedagogista, esegeta ed attivista sociale russo. Frasi in inglese.
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“How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?… All will end in death, all!”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra e pace

Origine: War and Peace

“I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro A Confession

Origine: A Confession

“I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.”

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Origine: The Death of Ivan Ilych

“Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra e pace

Origine: War and Peace

“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”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over."

"Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.”

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“Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“Progress consists, not in the increase of truth, but in freeing it from its wrappings. The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold.”

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Tolstoy's Diaries (1985) edited and translated by R. F. Christian. London: Athlone Press, Vol 2, p. 512
Contesto: People usually think that progress consists in the increase of knowledge, in the improvement of life, but that isn't so. Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life. The truth is always accessible to a man. It can't be otherwise, because a man's soul is a divine spark, the truth itself. It's only a matter of removing from this divine spark (the truth) everything that obscures it. Progress consists, not in the increase of truth, but in freeing it from its wrappings. The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold.

“I can't praise a young lady who is alive only when people are admiring her, but as soon as she is left alone, collapses and finds nothing to her taste--one who is all for show and has no resources in herself”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Family Happiness

Origine: Family Happiness

“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”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra e pace

Origine: War and Peace

“There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.”

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“If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!”

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