Anything is better than lies and deceit!
("Anna Karenina")
More Quotes from Leo Tolstoy:
But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian side are only conspicuous now because the event has justified them. If the event had not come to pass, these hints would have been forgotten, as thousands and millions of suggestions and supposition are now forgotten that were current at the period, but have been shown by time to be unfounded and so have been consigned to oblivion.Leo Tolstoy
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
Leo Tolstoy
When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death
Leo Tolstoy
He went down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, but he saw her, as one sees the sun, without looking.
Leo Tolstoy
Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.
Leo Tolstoy
Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread"."
Leo Tolstoy
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