He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it
Leo TolstoyShe had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.
Leo TolstoyHe felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
Leo TolstoyIf a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things
Leo Tolstoy