From Haruki Murakami: “It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
Tag Archives: Leo Tolstoy
Quote of the day 02/03/24
From Leo Tolstoy: “There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
Quote of the day 12/10/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”
Quote of the day 12/09/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.”
Quote of the day 12/08/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”
Quote of the day 12/07/23
From Leo Tolstoy: ‘Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.”
Quote of the day 12/06/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Boredom: the desire for desires.”
Quote of the day 12/05/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “We lost because we told ourselves we lost.”
Quote of the day 12/04/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
Quote of the day 12/03/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
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