There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
Leo TolstoyYou've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!
Leo TolstoyThe chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.
Leo TolstoyLoving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.
Leo Tolstoy