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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“Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra e pace

Origine: War and Peace

“All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Variante: All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
Origine: Anna Karenina

“She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.”

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Leo Tolstoy

Origine: Anna Karenina, Vol 1 of 8

“How can one be well… when one suffers morally?”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra e pace

Origine: War and Peace

“Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.”

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Leo Tolstoy

“Every heart has its own skeletons.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra e pace

Origine: War and Peace

“It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra e pace

Origine: War and Peace

“There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“Everything depends on upbringing.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra e pace

Variante: Everything intelligent is so boring.
Origine: War and Peace

“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Pt. I, ch. 9
Variante: He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
Origine: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)

“I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.”

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Leo Tolstoy

Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence (1886)
Origine: What Then Must We Do?

“The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro A Confession

Origine: Confession (1882), Ch. 5, translated by David Patterson, 1983
Origine: A Confession

“And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Anna Karenina

Origine: Anna Karenina

“A king is history's slave.”

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Leo Tolstoy libro Guerra e pace

Bk. IX, ch. 1
Origine: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)