They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us — there is no life.

Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Also known as: Лев Николаевич Толстой, Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy, Tolstoi
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About Leo Tolstoy

Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy [Ле́в Никола́евич Толсто́й, usually rendered Leo Tolstoy, or sometimes Tolstoi] (9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910) was a Russian writer, philosopher and social activist (social critic), whose novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina are internationally praised classics of world literature. He was a major influence on the development of Christian anarchism and pacifism, contributing to such nonviolent resistance movements as those of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Bevel.

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