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"I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now."
Vronsky
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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Additional quotes by Leo Tolstoy
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.
When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.