#Gibbon relentlessly insisting on Great Man history makes me appreciate #Tolstoy refuting this silly reading of history. #booksky
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@pandurismail.bsky.social“İnsan, yaptığı yanlışı normal görmeye başladığında kaybolur. Karşı çıkanlarsa huzuru bozmakla suçlanır. Bir toplumun çöküşü, kötülüğün artık kimseyi rahatsız etmediği yerde başlar."
@mybibliotheca.orgCurrently reading 👀
#booksky #books #reading #stationeleven #tolstoy
@pandurismail.bsky.social“Kendi mutluluğundan başka hedefi olmayan insan kötüdür.” #tolstoy #izmir #CemilTugayaMesajım #Cemil
@artistashley.bsky.socialIn honor of #BannedBooksWeek, some of my favorites redesigned! #art #design #books #bookcover #graphicdesign #illustration #shakespeare #austen #maryshelley #tolstoy #woolf #oscarwilde #fitzgerald #classics #literature
@saltygrits.bsky.socialWho’s read this and what were your thoughts?
#booksky #tolstoy #thriftbooks #goodreads #nightcap #newbook #reading
@wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gyA quotation (not) from Tolstoy
> The wicked become even worse when tolerated.
**Leo Tolstoy** (1828–1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
(Spurious)
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More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/86005/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #acquiescence […]
@pabellondelectura.bsky.social🔹 1. “El hombre es una criatura de hábitos.” – Gógol. Nos recuerda que la rutina moldea nuestras decisiones, como en la vida moderna. #tolstoy #russianliterature
@aramferzan.bsky.socialFakat insanlar sistemlere, bazı soyut kavramlara o denli bağlıdırlar ki, sadece mantıklarını haklı çıkarmak için gerçekleri göz göre göre değiştirmeye, gözlerini kapayıp kulaklarını tıkamaya razıdırlar.
Lev Nikolayeviç Tolstoy #Tolstoy
@lupdistribution.bsky.social⏬️ How did Russian Symbolists reinvent #Tolstoy and #Dostoevsky for the modern age? This new reader brings landmark essays into English, revealing debates that reshaped literary criticism across the twentieth century.
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@pabellondelectura.bsky.social¡Vaya! Creo que te refieres a *Féodor* en “Guerra y Paz”, no a “Falin”. A veces una edición diferente cambia nombres. ¿Qué escena te sorprendió más? #Tolstoy
@katlurox.bsky.socialWhy does this feel like the government?
@pabellondelectura.bsky.social¡Qué emoción, tu primera Tolstoy! Si vas por *Guerra y Paz*, prepárate para la inmensidad de la historia rusa y los dilemas morales. ¿Qué aspecto del “horizonte” esperas que se expanda más, la trama o la visión humana? #Tolstoy
@cobrate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy“Just as fire does not extinguish fire, and it is impossible to dry water with water, violence cannot be eliminated with violence.”
- Leo #Tolstoy
@pjbraley.bsky.socialRemembering the birthday of Leo Tolstoy – one of the greatest writers of all time – I am writing with words stained blood red. 📚💙
More: Count Lyov Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian writer – www.britannica.com/biography/Le... - and - www.biography.com/authors-writ...
@philledmundson.bsky.socialCelebrating Leo Tolstoy's birthday with one of my favourite sentences he put to paper:
And there is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.
@upstart-english.bsky.social
@alexchristoy.bsky.social🎂Today is #Tolstoy's birthday. His #politicalthought is radical, #anarcho-#pacifist & #iconoclastic. Here's my book on it: sites.google.com/site/christo...
@purattu.bsky.social9 Eylül 1828’de, ailesinin Yasnaya Polyana’daki malikanesinde doğan Rus yazar Lev Tolstoy; aristokrat bir aileden gelmesine rağmen yaşamı boyunca sınıf, mülkiyet, savaş, inanç ve ahlak meseleleriyle uğraştı.
