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A Confession, Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy

A Confession

Leo Tolstoy wrote this short meditation on sadness and the meaning of life when he was middle aged. He had already completed his masterworks, Anna Karenina and War and Peace, reared fourteen children and gained fame and acclaim in Russia as a man of letters. But despite having attained that success, he still found himself unhappy and always returning to the disturbing idea that all achievement is meaningless.
A Confession is his attempt to put these thoughts in words as he teetered on the brink of suicide. It forms the first in a four-volume series that included A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology, The Gospel in Brief, and What I Believe (also known as My Religion or My Faith).
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  • Anindya Kciteerde uit7 jaar geleden
    : I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.
  • qjc7htd9spciteerde uit5 dagen geleden
    In con­tra­dis­tinc­tion to us, who the wiser we are the less we un­der­stand the mean­ing of life, and see some evil irony in the fact that we suf­fer and die, these folk live and suf­fer, and they ap­proach death and suf­fer­ing with tran­quil­lity and in most cases gladly.
  • rebeklyciteerde uit10 dagen geleden
    the ar­biter of what is good and evil is not what people say and do, nor is it pro­gress, but it is my heart and I.

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