#karenina

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. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#anna-karenina #avoiding #flattery #gaze #love

He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#leo-tolstoy #love #love

Qualquer que seja ou venha a ser o nosso destino, somos nós que o fazemos, e não nos lamentamos. ↗

— Liev Tolstói

#destiny #love #love

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 ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#leo-tolstoy #life #life-philosophy #life

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#capitalism #dishonest #hierarchy #honest #labor

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, ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#love

I work, I want to do something, but I had forgotten it must all end; I had forgotten--death. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#death

The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#banks #earnings #labor #leo-tolstoy #monopolies

Se há tantas cabeças quantas são as maneiras de pensar, há de haver tantos tipos de amor quantos são os corações. ↗

— Liev Tolstói

#inspirational #love #tolstoi #inspirational

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

— Leo Tolstoy

#beauty #charm #diversity #leo-tolstoy #beauty