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War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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think … if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.’
Leo Tolstoy • Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
What did it mean? It meant that his life was good, but his thinking was bad.
Leo Tolstoy • Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
“So-called great men are always terribly contradictory,” Tolstoy told Gorky. “That is forgiven them with all their other follies. Though contradictoriness is not folly: a fool is stubborn, but does not know how to contradict himself.” Tolstoy knew how to contradict himself.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
Au sommet de sa gloire, de son influence et de sa créativité, l’immense Léon Tolstoï s’interrogeait lui aussi sur la valeur de l’existence humaine111. Il raisonnait ainsi : « Ma position était affreuse. Je savais que je ne trouverais rien sur le chemin de la science raisonnée, excepté la négation de la vie ; rien non plus dans la croyance, excepté
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