5 quotes found
“I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.”
“But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe”
“No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to b...”
“But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore,...”
“God help me, how Tolstoy sweats over drying up people's sources of life, of wild and joyful life, drying them up and making the world fat with the love of God and everyman. ... But the man is old, ...”
