Author: Leo Tolstoy

Cites

• Denis Davydov (2)
  • IN: Two Hussars (1856) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ... Forever Jomini, Jomini, but never a mention of Vodka
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
  • IN: Master and Man and Other Stories (None) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ...for ever Jomini, Jomini, But never a mention of vodka...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
• Bible (5)
  • IN: Anna Karenina (1877) Fiction, Literary Realism, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Vengence is mine, I will repay
    FROM: Romans 12:19–21, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Resurrection (1900) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.
    FROM: Bible, Luke, vi, 40, (100), Bible, NULL

Cited by

• Nadine Gordimer (1)
  • IN: No Time Like the Present (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: History has to do with manifestations of human freedom in connection with the external world, with time, and with dependence upon causes.
    FROM: War and Peace, (1869), Novel, Russia
• Neel Mukherjee (1)
  • IN: The Lives of Others (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In historical events what is most obvious is the prohibition against eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
    FROM: War and Peace, (1869), NULL, Russia
• Christine Chia (1)
  • IN: The Law of Second Marriages (2014) Poetry, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
    FROM: Anna Karenina, (1878), NULL, Russia
• Heather Demetrios (2)
  • IN: Something Real (2014) Contemporary, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
    FROM: Anna Karenina, (1877), Novel, Russia
• Alex Gutteridge (1)
  • IN: No Going Back (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
    FROM: Anna karenina, (1878), Novel, Russia
• Amy Hatvany (1)
  • IN: Heart Like Mine (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
    FROM: Anna Karenina, (1877), Novel, Russia
• Leslie Glass (1)
  • IN: Tracking Time (2001) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
    FROM: Anna Karenina, (1877), Novel, Russia
• Kristopher Jansma (1)
  • IN: The Unchangeable Spots of Leopard (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
• Anthony Marra (1)
  • IN: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It was of this death that I was reminded by the crushed thistle in the midst of the plowed field.
    FROM: Hadji Murad, (1912), Novel, Russia
• David Nickle (1)
  • IN: Rasputin's Bastards (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: All happy families are alike.
    FROM: Anna Karenina, (1878), Novel, Russia
• David Adams Richards (1)
  • IN: Nights below Station Street (1988) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Everyone wants to change the world; but no one will change themselves.
    FROM: “Three Methods Of Reform” in Pamphlets: Translated from the Russian (1900), (1900), Book, Russia
• Irina Reyn (1)
  • IN: What Happened to Anna K (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art of integrating them (that is, finding the sum of these infinitesimals) can we hope to arrive at the laws of history.
    FROM: War and Peace, (1869), Novel, Russia
• Erica James (1)
  • IN: The Dandelion Years (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly
    FROM: War and Peace, (1869), Novel, Russia
• Araminta Hall (1)
  • IN: Everything and Nothing (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The grey-haired man began to laugh again. 'First you tell me that marriage is founded on love, and then when I express my doubts as to the existence of any love apart from the physical kind you try to prove its existence by the fact that marriages exist. But marriage nowadays is just a deception.
    FROM: The Kreutzer Sonata, (1889), Short story, Russia
• Carlos Fuentes (1)
  • IN: Happy Families (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
    FROM: Anna Karenina, (1878), Novel, Russia
• Tatjana Soli (1)
  • IN: The Forgetting Tree (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: How much land does a man need?
    FROM: How Much Land Does a Man Need?, (1886), Short story, Russia
• Dean Koontz (1)
  • IN: The Funhouse (1992) Fiction, Mystery Ficon, American
    EPIGRAPH: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
    FROM: Anna Karenina, (1878), Novel, Russia
• Darren Groth (1)
  • IN: Munro Vs The Coyote (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
• Helen Simpson (1)
  • IN: Getting a Life (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: She had grown stouter and broader, so that it was hard to recognize in the robust-looking young mother the slim, mobile Natasha of old days. Her features had become more defined, and wore an expression of calm softness and serenity. Her face had no longer that ever-glowing fire of eagerness that had once constituted her chief charm. Now, often her face and body were all that was to be seen, and the soul was not visible at all.
    FROM: War and Peace, (1869), Novel, Russia