Lew Tołstoj: Cytaty po angielsku

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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 książka Wojna i pokój

Źródło: 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 książka Anna Karenina

Wariant: All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
Źródło: 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

Źródło: Anna Karenina, Vol 1 of 8

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

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Leo Tolstoy książka Wojna i pokój

Źródło: 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 książka Anna Karenina

Źródło: Anna Karenina

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

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Leo Tolstoy książka Wojna i pokój

Źródło: 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 książka Wojna i pokój

Źródło: 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 książka Anna Karenina

Źródło: Anna Karenina

“Everything depends on upbringing.”

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Leo Tolstoy książka Wojna i pokój

Wariant: Everything intelligent is so boring.
Źródło: 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 książka Anna Karenina

Pt. I, ch. 9
Wariant: 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.
Źródło: 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)
Źródło: What Then Must We Do?

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

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Leo Tolstoy książka A Confession

Źródło: Confession (1882), Ch. 5, translated by David Patterson, 1983
Źródło: 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 książka Anna Karenina

Źródło: 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 książka Anna Karenina

Źródło: Anna Karenina

“A king is history's slave.”

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Leo Tolstoy książka Wojna i pokój

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