More quotes by Leo Tolstoy

"I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love."
"Boredom: the desire for desires."
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
"truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."