Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy; 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 August 1828
CountryRussian Federation
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A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world and therefore, as an Englishman, always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people. A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth -- science -- which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth.
fairytale knows
… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.
happy-marriage knows
The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.
waiting god-knows knows
God knows, but He's waiting
god knowing-god knows
To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.
believe believe-in-you knows
Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.
wanted stills knows
I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.
useless mediocre knows
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre
happiness ideas knows
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.
time waiting knows
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
would-be sometimes knows
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
knows
Everything I know, I know because of love.
way knows
it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
hands people knows
Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.