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Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy QUOTES

Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy QUOTES

1 " Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy

2 " The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is and will be beautiful, is Truth "

― Leo Tolstoy , Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy

3 " When I came to you out of all that dust and heat and toil, I positively smelt violets at once. But not the sweet violet - you know, that early dark violet that smells of melting snow and spring grass. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy

4 " I find it difficult now to recall and understand the dreams which then filled my imagination. Even when I can recall them, I find it hard to believe that my dreams were just like that: they were so strange and so remote from life. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy

5 " The scent of flowers grew stronger and came from all sides; the grass was drenched with dew; a nightingale struck up in a lilac bush close by and then stopped on hearing our voices; the starry sky seemed to come down lower over our heads. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy

6 " But what desires can always be satisfied despite external circumstances? What are they? Love, self-sacrifice.' He "

― Leo Tolstoy , Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy