They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
Leo TolstoyFor a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.
Leo TolstoyWoman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.
Leo TolstoyTalent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.
Leo Tolstoy