The Kreutzer Sonata and Family Happiness Quotes

“We exchanged disagreeable remarks. The impression of this first quarrel was terrible. I say quarrel, but the term is inexact. It was the sudden discovery of the abyss that had been dug between us.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata and Family Happiness

“I led the life of so many other so-called respectable people,—that is, in debauchery. And like the majority, while leading the life of a debauche, I was convinced that I was a man of irreproachable morality.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata and Family Happiness

“Yes: if only a hundredth of the efforts spent in curing diseases were spent in curing debauchery, disease would long ago have ceased to exist, whereas now all efforts are employed, not in extirpating debauchery, but in favoring it, by assuring the harmlessness of the consequences.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata and Family Happiness

“This is tantamount to saying, "My hand is weak. I cannot draw a straight line,—that is, a line which will be the shortest line between two given points,—and so, in order to make it more easy for myself, I, intending to draw a straight, will choose for my model a crooked line." The weaker my hand, the greater the need that my model should be perfect.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata and Family Happiness

“on which side is truth,—on the side of the thoughts which seem true and well-founded, or on the side of the lives of others and myself?”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata and Family Happiness

“Mutsuz insanların kentte yaşamaları daha iyidir. İnsan kentte yüz yıl yaşar da çoktan öldüğünün ve çürüdüğünün farkında bile olmaz. Bunu kendiliğinden anlayacak zamanı yoktur, hep meşguldür.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata and Family Happiness