Tolstoy Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
1828–1910 · Russia (Yasnaya Polyana)
The Russian novelist and thinker who wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Around the age of fifty, in the midst of fame and wealth, he was crushed by the meaninglessness of life and contemplated suicide, a crisis he recorded in A Confession. He went on to preach non-violent love and a life of simple labor, influencing even Gandhi, and at eighty-two he left home and died at a country railway station.
See Tolstoy's ideas and sayingsMajor works
- War and Peace
- Anna Karenina
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- A Confession
Tolstoy
I am Tolstoy of Yasnaya Polyana. After my books brought me glory, I could not look at a rope without wanting to hang myself, and while I preached love I quarreled with my wife in my own house.
So do not think me a better man than you. Brother, what in your life feels like a lie right now?
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