Leo Tolstoy

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

Leo Tolstoy

Children: a torment and nothing more.

Leo Tolstoy

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

Leo Tolstoy

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

Leo Tolstoy

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man’s life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

Leo Tolstoy

Every heart has its own skeletons.

Leo Tolstoy

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

Leo Tolstoy

Everything depends on upbringing.

Leo Tolstoy

Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.

Leo Tolstoy

Good fiction doesn’t come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

Leo Tolstoy