Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich, Count(also Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoi)

Russian mystic and novelist

wrote novels "War and Peace" 1866, "Anna Karenina" 1874, stories "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" 1886, "Master and Man" 1894, "Resurrection" 1900

• "Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?"
• "The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed, she is so kind hearted that she can't look at the blood, but enjoys serving the calf up with sauce"
• "I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness."
• "My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat."
• "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."