I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.
Leo TolstoyI think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.
Leo TolstoyTalent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.
Leo TolstoyMan cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
Leo TolstoyWhere did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
Leo Tolstoy