She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was. ~Leo Tolstoy

Tadahiro Uesugi’s https://t.co/yCDhgMhlec

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“How Much Land Does a Man Need?” - an adaptation of a classic Leo Tolstoy story by Martin Veyron. Now in the collection! https://t.co/JYS9lroOGU

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"From that day a life of chronic sin against human and divine laws commenced for Katyusha Maslova, a life which is led by hundreds of thousands of women... "~ L. Tolstoy

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“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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By Jon J. Muth. This watercolor adaptation of a Tolstoy squeezes the original's philosophy into a friendly .

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“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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"If you want to be happy, be."

📷Leo Tolstoy with his family circle at Yasnaya Polyana, about 1905.

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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

Leo Tolstoy

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“There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.” - Leo Tolstoy

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90% of my Interactions with Tolstoy end like this ...

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All the beauty of life is made up of
light and shadow. Leo Tolstoy

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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."- Leo Tolstoy https://t.co/JES5S8YvE3

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Russia's greatest realist painter Ilya Repin was born 1844. This is his "The Ploughman Tolstoy in the Fields".

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Leo Tolstoy, In the 1906 essay "On Shakespeare and Drama", called Shakespeare’s plays “trivial and positively bad”

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Tolstoy working in his library at Yasnaya Polyana. By V. Meshkov. 

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“I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”

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'Spring is the time of plans and projects' - Leo Tolstoy. What do you have coming up?

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Levitan
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Tolstoy

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