#tolstoy

[sezginer35]

Akşaminiz güzel olsun...

Tolstoy'a sormuşlar:

Nasıl ''iyi insan'' olunabilir?

Önce ''kötülük ve kötü insan'' hususunda mutabık olmak lazım, demiş.

Peki, kötü insan nedir? diye sormuşlar.

Verdiği cevap sarsıcı:

''Kendi mutluluğundan başka hedefi olmayan insan en kötü insandır.''

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"Wie wird man ein guter Mensch?" fragte man Tolstoy.

"Zuerst muss man sich über das Böse und den schlechten Menschen einig sein," sagte er.

Auf die Frage, was ein schlechter Mensch sei, gab er eine erschütternde Antwort:

"Der Mensch, dessen einziges Ziel sein eigenes Glück ist, ist der schlimmste Mensch."

[coeurdeverre82]

[beatricethestrange]

I might make a part two because there's a lot more I wanted to put.

[transpondster]

[odraziduse]

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

[opanas-opanasovych-opanasenko]

"We will survive this as well, and win. It's just that no one will ever REALLY understand what happened. They never did. "Where's your Duke Ellington? Where's your Frank Sinatra?" Not here. Lined up and shot. "Where's your grand historical multi-generational business?" Not here. They were never born. Had everything taken from them. Died of hunger. And the memory of what remained is being raided or further destroyed by russian bastards. "Where's your Gaudi? Where's the Ukrainian John Nash?" Burned down. From a russian bomb or arson. Not here. "Why can't you sort yourself out!" Who'll be doing the sorting? The people who, since 1991, had at most 3 years of a breather because the russian bastards were putting their fingers into every pie here and propping up reprobates? Yeah, let's see you try to build a state in such conditions. At least as strong as we did."

by https://x.com/MelaniePodolyak

[can-of-w0rmz]

Just started War And Peace. My contribution:

[tarumarimm]

"Çok sevdiğin ama geri döndüremeyeceğin kişiler, her hatırladığında seni tekrar tekrar terkeder." diyor Tolstoy. Çünkü iyi bir hafıza, en büyük cehennemdir. Hatıralar acı verici şeylerdir. Çünkü hatıra olmuş şey, muhtemelen bir daha hiç yaşanmayacak kadar uzaktadır.

[dolline]

[lazyyogi]

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Leo Tolstoy

[philosophors]

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”

— Leo Tolstoy

[amicus-noctis]

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.”

― Shakespeare, Henry V

Painting: Interior with Woman Standing at the Table" by Vilhelm Hammershøi

[jeandelispector]

dostoevsky's manuscripts

[awhitewomansinstagram]

Me a few years ago: oh Russian literature musical!

Me every day since then: DID I SQUANDER MY DIVINITY? WAS HAPPINESS WITHIN ME THIS WHOLE TIME?

[opanas-opanasovych-opanasenko]

was reminded of this old video:

[andreai04]

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

‘I have nothing to forget or forgive, I never ceased to love you.'