I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?
Leo TolstoyIt's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.
Leo TolstoyThis history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
Leo TolstoyWar is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Leo TolstoyThe sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before.
Leo Tolstoy