Great Throughts Treasury

"Every girl is proud of an offer."

"Every human life has two sides: personal life that is more free, the more abstract its interests and life elemental swarm, in which man, without being able to escape, statutes that have prescribed. Consciously man lives for himself, but unconsciously serves as a weapon to achieve goals of the entire history of mankind. A deed once committed, is irreversible, and its action, while competing with millions of shares of other people, get a historical significance."

"Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that enormous whole."

"Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime."

"Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth."

"Every man, knowing to the smallest detail all the complexity of the conditions surrounding him, involuntarily assumes that the complexity of these conditions and the difficulty of comprehending them are only his personal, accidental peculiarity, and never thinks that others are surrounded by the same complexity as he is."

"Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence."

"Every violent reform deserves censure, for it quite fails to remedy evil while men remain what they are, and also because wisdom needs no violence."

"Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."

"Everything depends on upbringing."

"Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible."

"Everyone who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor?that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist."

"Everything I know, I know because I love."

"Everyone has skeletons in their soul."

"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all."

"Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was so sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had given warning."

"Excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'I'm afraid I'm becoming ridiculous."

"Everything intelligent is so boring."

"Faith is neither hope nor trust, but a particular spiritual state. Faith is man?s awareness that his position in the world obliges him to perform certain actions. A person acts according to his faith, not as the catechism says because he believes in things unseen as in things seen, nor because he wishes to achieve things hoped for, but simply because having defined his position in the world it is natural for him to act according to it."

"Everything seemed pleasant and easy to Nikolai during the first part of his stay in Voronezh and, as generally happens when a man is in a pleasant state of mind, everything went well and easily. p 1128"

"Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that one must live for something, he would not live. If he does not see and recognize the illusory nature of the finite, he believes in the finite; if he understands the illusory nature of the finite, he must believe in the infinite. Without faith he cannot live."

"For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable."

"For a while, Ivan Ilyich spends the whole time trying to relive the old moments when old feelings had held him away from the idea of death. For instance he said, I'll take care of the job, she only found my life purpose. And goes to court, removing all doubts him, starts talking to colleagues once sat as he was wont, embracing the audience with a thoughtful look distracted, and leaned with both hands weakened by arms oak chair, lean, as he did prior to his colleague, took his case closer, change a few words in a whisper And then suddenly, raising his eyes and moving in stall, speaking formula rigorous and begin the process. But suddenly, in the middle of the session, but are indifferent to the trials of some pain began their destructive action. Ivan Ilyich their first go at her ears, and her mind away from her, but she continues action and appear in front of them, looking at him, and he stands petrified with extinct eyes and asks: Is only it be reality?"

"For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for the artist treating of a man's relation to all sides of life there cannot and should not be heroes, but there should be men... The historian has to deal with the results of an event, the artist with the fact of the event. An historian in describing a battle says: 'The left flank of such and such an army was advanced to attack such and such a village and drove out the enemy, but was compelled to retire; then the cavalry, which was sent to attack, overthrew...' and so on. But these words have no meaning for the artist and do not actually touch on the event itself. Either from his own experience, or from the letters, memoirs, and accounts, the artist realizes a certain event to himself, and very often (to take the example of a battle) the deductions the historian permits himself to make as to the activity of such and such armies prove to be the very opposite of the artist's deductions. The difference of the results arrived at is also to be explained by the sources from which the two draw their information. For the historian (to keep to the case of a battle) the chief source is found in the reports of the commanding officers and the commander-in-chief. The artist can draw nothing from such sources; they tell him nothing and explain nothing to him. More than that: the artist turns away from them as he finds inevitable falsehood in them. To say nothing of the fact that after any battle the two sides nearly always describe it in quite contradictory ways, in every description of a battle there is a necessary lie, resulting from the need of describing in a few words the actions of thousands of men spread over several miles, and subject to most violent moral excitement under the influence of fear, shame and death."

"For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all."

"For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in These days? Said the ambassador's wife. What's to be done? It's a old fashion Foolish Kept That's still up, said Vronsky."

"For Muhammad is a messenger figure and reformer who serve with devotion was noble, guides people to the light of truth. And people who like fast given the respect and appreciation."

"For nightingales - we know - can?t live on fairytales."

"For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault."

"Formerly, when I was told to consider him wise, I kept trying to, and thought I was stupid myself because I was unable to perceive his wisdom; but as soon as I said to myself, he's stupid (only in a whisper of course), it all became quite clear! Don't you think so?' 'How malicious you are to-day!' 'Not at all. I have no choice. One of us is stupid, and you know it's impossible to say so of oneself."

"Forgive does not mean just say forgive, but removed from the heart srdnju, bad feeling toward one who has insulted us. And to do that we need only to think of his sin, and when we remember them, conceived, we find ourselves in even worse than those for which angry we've grown."

"Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands."

"Formerly (it had begun almost from childhood and kept growing till full maturity), whenever he had tried to do something that would be good for everyone, for mankind, for Russia, for the district, for the whole village, he had noticed that thinking about it was pleasant, but the doing itself was always awkward, there was no full assurance that the thing was absolutely necessary, and the doing itself, which at the start had seemed so big, kept diminishing and diminishing, dwindling to nothing; while now, after his marriage, when he began to limit himself more and more to living for himself, though he no longer experienced any joy at the thought of what he was doing, he felt certain that his work was necessary, saw that it turned out much better than before and that it was expanding more and more."

"Genius is the patience of those unusual terms."

"Go to the devil, I'm busy."

"Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing?finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime."

"God forgive me everything!? she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling."

"Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get."

"God gave the day, God gave the strength."

"God is one and the same everywhere."

"God is in the midst and each drop tries to expand so as to reflect Him to the greatest extent. And it grows, merges, disappears from the surface, sinks to the depths, and again emerges."

"God is the same everywhere."

"God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part."

"Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects."

"God knows of love"

"God knows, but He's waiting"

"Good for a reason, it is not good, but if it has effects - the award, it is also not good. Steel to be good outside the chain of cause and effect."

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

"Happiness is pleasure without regret."

"Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone."