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Resurrection Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
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“One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way -- said to be kind, wicked, stupid, energetic, apathetic, and so on. People are not like that. We may say of a man that he is more often kind than cruel, more often wise than stupid, more often energetic than apathetic or vice versa; but it could never be true to say of one man that he is kind or wise, and of another that he is wicked or stupid. Yet we are always classifying mankind in this way. And it is wrong. Human beings are like rivers; the water is one and the same in all of them but every river is narrow in some places, flows swifter in others; here it is broad, there still, or clear, or cold, or muddy or warm. It is the same with men. Every man bears within him the germs of every human quality, and now manifests one, now another, and frequently is quite unlike himself, while still remaining the same man.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“Though men in their hundreds of thousands had tried their hardest to disfigure that little corner of the earth where they had crowded themselves together, paving the ground with stones so that nothing could grow, weeding out every blade of vegetation, filling the air with the fumes of coal and gas, cutting down trees and driving away every beast and every bird -- spring, however, was still spring, even in the town. The sun shone warm, the grass, wherever it had not been scraped away, revived and showed green not only on the narrow strips of lawn on the boulevards but between the paving-stones as well, and the birches, the poplars and the wild cherry-trees were unfolding their sticky, fragrant leaves, and the swelling buds were bursting on the lime trees; the jackdaws, the sparrows and the pigeons were cheerfully getting their nests ready for the spring, and the flies, warmed by the sunshine, buzzed gaily along the walls. All were happy -- plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people -- adult men and women -- never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy -- a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love. No, what they considered sacred and important were their own devices for wielding power over each other.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
tags: love
“It is usually imagined that a thief, a murderer, a spy, a prostitute, acknowledging his profession as evil, is ashamed of it. But the contrary is true. People whom fate and their sin-mistakes have placed in a certain position, however false that position may be, form a view of life in general which makes their position seem good and admissible. In order to keep up their view of life, these people instinctively keep to the circle of those people who share their views of life and their own place in it. This surprises us, where the persons concerned are thieves, bragging about their dexterity, prostitutes vaunting their depravity, or murderers boasting of their cruelty. This surprises us only because the circle, the atmosphere in which these people live, is limited, and we are outside it. But can we not observe the same phenomenon which the rich boast of their wealth, i.e., robbery; the commanders in the army pride themselves on their victories, i.e., murder; and those in high places vaunt their power, i.e., violence? We do not see the perversion in the views of life held by these people, only because the circle formed by them is more extensive, and we ourselves are moving inside of it.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“All were happy -- plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people -- adult men and women -- never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy -- a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“It was clear that everything considered important and good was insignificant and repulsive, and that all this glamour and luxury hid the old well-known crimes, which not only remained unpunished but were adorned with all the splendor men can devise.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“There are many faiths, but the spirit is one 鈥� in me, and in you, and in him. So that if everyone believes himself, all will be united; everyone be himself and all will be as one.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other conditions could produce it, and for the spreading of this condensed depravity and vice broadcast among the whole population.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“there is a kind of business, called Government service, which allows men to treat other men as things without having human brotherly relations with them; and that they should be so linked together by this Government service that the responsibility for the results of their deeds should not fall on any one of them individually.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, that is, absence of all rational and useful work; frees them from their common human duties, which it replaces by merely conventional duties to the honor of the regiment, the uniform, the flag; and while giving them on the one hand absolute power over other men, also puts them into conditions of servile obedience to those of higher ranks than themselves.”
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“Then he had looked on his spirit as his I; now, it was his healthy strong animal I that he looked upon as himself.
And all this terrible change has come about because he had ceased to believe himself and had taken to believing others. This he had done because it was too difficult to live believing one's self: believing one's self, one had to decide every question, not in favour of one's animal I, which was always seeking for easy gratification, but in almost every case against it. Believing others, there was nothing to decide; everything had been decided already, and always in favor of the animal I and against the spiritual. Nor was this all. Believing in his own self, he was always exposing himself to the censure of those around him; believing others, he had their approval.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“廿賳 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱毓爻賰乇賷丞 賮賷 丨丿 匕丕鬲賴丕 賲賮爻丿丞 賱賱乇噩丕賱貙 廿匕 鬲噩毓賱賴賲 賮賷 丨丕賱丞 亘胤丕賱丞 鬲賰丕丿 鬲賰賵賳 賲爻鬲賲乇丞 兀賵 毓賱 丕賱兀賯賱 賮賷 丨丕賱丞 丕賳賯胤丕毓 毓賳 賰賱 毓賲賱 賲賮賷丿 賵賲毓賯賵賱 賵賮賷 丨賷賳丕 鬲乇賮毓 毓賳 賰賵丕賴賱賴賲 爻丕卅乇 丕賱賵丕噩亘丕鬲 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳賷丞貙 賮廿賳賴丕 鬲囟賮賷 毓賱賷賴賲 卮乇賮丕 夭丕卅賮丕 賴賵 卮乇賮 丕賱賮乇賯丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷賳鬲賲賵賳 廿賱賷賴丕 賵卮乇賮 丕賱乇丕賷丞 賵鬲賲賳丨賴賲 爻賱胤丕賳丕 賲胤賱賯丕 毓賱賶 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賳丕爻 賮賷 丨賷賳 鬲賮乇囟 毓賱賷賴賲 禺囟賵毓 丕賱毓亘賷丿 睾賷乇 丕賱賲噩丿賷 賵睾賷乇 丕賱賲卮乇賮.
賱賷賵 鬲賵賱爻鬲賵賷 - 乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱亘毓孬”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“Imagine a problem in psychology: to find a way of getting people in our day and age - Christians, humanitarians, nice, kind people - to commit the most heinous crimes without feeling any guilt. There is only one solution - doing just what we do now: you make them governors, superintendents, officers or policemen, a process which, first of all, presupposes acceptance of something that goes by the name of government service and allows people to be treated like inanimate objects, precluding any humane or brotherly relationships, and, secondly, ensures that people working for this government service must be so interdependent that responsibility for any consequences of the way they treat people never devolves on any one of them individually.”
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“How can you possibly hope to reform her after the life she's been leading?'
'It's not her I'm wanting to reform - it's me,' he replied. 'Besides, it's taking me into a world where I can do some good.'
'I can't imagine you happy.'
'That's not the point.'
'Of course it isn't. But if she has a heart, she can't be happy either. She can't want you to do that.'
'No, she doesn't.'
'I see. But life...'
'What about life?'
'Life demands something different.'
'Life only wants us to do the right things,' said Nekhlyudov.
-Resurrection”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“During that summer Nekhludoff experienced that exaltation which youth comes to know not by the teaching of others, but when it naturally begins to recognize the beauty and importance of life, and man's serious place in it; when it sees the possibility of infinite perfection of which the world is capable, and devotes itself to that endeavor, not only with the hope, but with a full conviction of reaching that perfection which it imagines possible.”
Leo Tolstoy, The Awakening The Resurrection
“Odurna je 啪ivotinjska priroda zvjeri u 膷ovjeku, ali kad je ona u 膷istom obliku, onda je ti s visine svog du拧evnog 啪ivota vidi拧 i prezire拧, pa ili pao, ili se odr啪ao - ti ostaje拧 ono 拧to si bio; ali kad se ta ista 啪ivotinja krije pod tobo啪e estetskim, poetskim ovojem i iziskuje da joj se pokloni拧, onda sam nestaje拧 u njoj i, obo啪avaju膰i 啪ivotinju, ne razlikuje拧 vi拧e dobro od zla. Onda je to u啪asno.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“Prevention is better than cure,”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“賮丕賱賳丕爻 賷卮亘賴賵賳 丕賱兀賳賴乇 賷噩乇賷 丕賱賲丕亍 賮賷賴丕 噩賲賷毓丕賸 , 睾賷乇 兀賳 兀丨丿賴丕 賷賰賵賳 賲爻鬲賯賷賲丕賸 賮賷 賲賰丕賳 賲丕 賵賲鬲毓乇噩丕賸 賮賷 丌禺乇 , 賵丕爻毓丕賸 賵囟賷賯丕賸 . 氐丕賮賷 丕賱賲丕亍 賵毓賰乇賴 , 賮丕鬲乇丕賸 賵亘丕乇丿丕賸 賵賴賰匕丕 卮兀賳 丕賱亘卮乇 , 賮賴賲 賷丨賲賱賵賳 賮賷 丿丕禺賱賴賲 亘匕賵乇 丕賱賮囟丕卅賱 賵丕賱乇匕丕卅賱 , 賮胤賵乇丕賸 鬲鬲睾賱亘 賴匕賴 賵 胤賵乇丕賸 鬲鬲睾賱亘 鬲賱賰”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“If you feel no love for people - don't get up from your chair.' Nekhlyudov was thinking of himself. 'Stay involved with yourself, and things, anything you like, but don't get involved with people. Just as you can eat healthily and profitably only when you are hungry, so you can have profitable and healthy dealings with people only when you have love for them. But if you let yourself deal with people without any love for them, as you did with your brother-in-law yesterday, there are no limits to the cruelty and brutality you can inflict on others - as I have seen today - and no limits to the suffering you can bring on yourself, as I can see from the whole of my life.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“One may deal with things without love...but you cannot deal with men without it...It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“The animalism of the brute nature in man is disgusting,鈥� he thought, 鈥渂ut as long as it remains in its naked form we observe it from the height of our spiritual life and despise it; and鈥攚hether one has fallen or resisted鈥攐ne remains what one was before. But when that same animalism hides under a cloak of poetry and 忙sthetic feeling and demands our worship鈥攖hen we are swallowed up by it completely and worship animalism, no longer distinguishing good from evil. Then it is awful!”
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“Ma koliko nastojali ljudi, kad ih se nekoliko stotina tisu膰a skupi na jednom, nevelikom mjestu, da iznakaze tu zemlju na kojoj se sti拧膰u; ma kako sabijali kamenje u zemlju da ne bi ni拧ta raslo na njoj; ma kako plijevili svaku travku 拧to probije; ma kako dimili kamenim ugljenom i petrolejem; ma kako obrezivali drve膰e i ma kako istjerivali sve 啪ivotinje i ptice 鈥� prolje膰e je bilo prolje膰e 膷ak i u gradu.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“Everything seemed so clear to him now that he could not stop wondering how it was that everybody did not see it, and that he himself had for such a long while not seen what was so clearly evident. The people were dying out, and had got used to the dying-out process, and had formed habits of life adapted to this process...And so gradually had the people come to this condition that they did not realize the full horrors of it, and did not complain. Therefore, we consider their condition natural and as it should be. Now it seemed as clear as daylight that the chief cause of the people's great want was one that they themselves knew and always pointed out, i.e., that the land which alone could feed them had been taken from them by the landlords.
And how evident it was that the children and the aged died because they had no milk, and they had no milk because there was no pasture land, and no land to grow corn or make hay on...The land so much needed by men was tilled by these people, who were on the verge of starvation, so that the corn might be sold abroad and the owners of the land might buy themselves hats and canes, and carriages and bronzes, etc.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of these dogmas and of all that went on in church, believed that they must believe, because the higher authorities and the Tsar himself believed in it. Besides, though faintly (and themselves unable to explain why), they felt that this faith defended their cruel occupations. If this faith did not exist it would have been more difficult, perhaps impossible, for them to use all their powers to torment people, as they were now doing, with a quiet conscience. The inspector was such a kind-hearted man that he could not have lived as he was now living unsupported by his faith.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“He had committed no evil action, but, what was far worse than an evil action, he had entertained evil thoughts, whence evil actions proceed. An evil action may not be repeated, and can be repented of; but evil thoughts generate all evil actions. An evil action only smooths the path for other evil acts; evil thoughts uncontrollably drag one along that path.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“The animalism of the brute nature in man is disgusting', he thought, 'but as long as it remains in its naked form we observe it from the height of our spiritual life and despise it; and - whether one has fallen or resisted - one remains what one was before. But when that same animalism hides under a cloak of poetry and aesthetic feeling and demands our worship - then we are swallowed up by it completely and worship animalism, no longer distinguishing good from evil. Then it is awful!”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“The position occupied by Topor贸ff, involving as it did an incongruity of purpose, could only be held by a dull man devoid of moral sensibility. Topor贸ff possessed both these negative qualities. The incongruity of the position he occupied was this: It was his duty to keep up and to defend, by external measures, not excluding violence, that Church which, by its own declaration, was established by God Himself and could not be shaken by the gates of hell nor by anything human. This divine and immutable God-established institution had to be sustained and defended by a human institution--the Holy Synod, managed by Topor贸ff and his officials. Topor贸ff did not see this contradiction, nor did he wish to see it, and he was therefore much concerned lest some Romish priest, some pastor, or some sectarian should destroy that Church which the gates of hell could not conquer.”
Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
“Nekhludoff laughed as he compared himself to the ass in the fable who, while deciding which of the two bales of hay before him he should have his meal from, starved himself.”
Leo Tolstoy, The Awakening The Resurrection
“Jedna od najobi膷nijih i najra拧irenijih praznovjerica je ta da svaki 膷ovjek ima jedino svoja odre膽ena svojstva, da je 膷ovjek dobar, zao, glup, energi膷an, apati膷an itd. Ljudi nisu takvi. Mo啪emo kazati o 膷ovjeku da je 膷e拧膰e dobar nego zao, 膷e拧膰e pametan nego glup, 膷e拧膰e energi膷an nego apati膷an, i obratno; ali 膰e biti neistina ako reknemo o kojem 膷ovjeku da je dobar ili pametan, a o drugom da je zao ili glup. A mi uvijek tako dijelimo ljude. I to nije istina. Ljudi su kao rijeke: voda je u svima jednaka i svuda ista, ali svaka je rijeka sad uska, sad brza, sad 拧iroka, sad tiha, sad 膷ista, sad hladna, sad mutna, sad topla. Tako i ljudi. Svaki 膷ovjek nosi u sebi za膷etke svih ljudskih svojstava te ponekad ispoljava jedne, ponekad druge, i 膷esto nije nikako nalik na sebe, a ipak ostaje vazda onaj koji jest.”
Tolstoy Leo Nikoleyevich, Resurrection

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