Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj: Frasi in inglese (pagina 14)

“A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.”

“Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”

“He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.”

“Time and Patience.”

“… the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.”

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt it in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.”

“Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.”

“Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her.”

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

“but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.”

“There are such repulsive faces in the world.”

“There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.”

“It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it”

“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.”

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

“I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.”

“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.”

“I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.”

“Why are you so sad?
- Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.”