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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“And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait… there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra e pace

Origine: War and Peace

“I am not strange but I feel queer. I am like that sometimes. I feel like crying all the time. It is very silly but it will pass.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra e pace

Origine: War and Peace

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

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Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra e pace

Origine: War and Peace

“The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro The Devil

Origine: The Devil

“You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.”

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Origine: Christians and the Law-Courts

“The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.”

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Sevastopol in May (1855), Ch. 16

“In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. …Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of affective communication between people.”

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What is Art? (1897)

“Three years ago he was an honest, self-denying youth, ready to devote himself to every good cause; now he was a corrupt and refined egotist, given over to personal enjoyment. … And all this terrible transformation took place in him only because he ceased to have faith in himself, and began to believe in others.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Resurrezione

Origine: Resurrection (1899), Ch. 13

“The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens … Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.”

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As quoted in Tolstoy (1988) by A. N. Wilson, p. 146

“No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that “amusements” are not so amusing.”

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Origine: Path of Life (1909), p. 81

“The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.”

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Variant translation: The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.
Origine: The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894), Ch. 12

“In Nekhludoff, as in all people, there were two beings; one spiritual, who sought only such happiness for himself as also benefited others; and the animal being, seeking his own happiness for the sake of which he is willing to sacrifice that of the world.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Resurrezione

Origine: Resurrection (1899), Ch. 14

“He, like all people who live with nature and know want, was patient and could wait calmly for hours, even days, without feeling either alarm or vexation”

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“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.
Pt. I, ch. 1
Variant translations: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Variante: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Origine: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)