Feelings, the most diverse, very strong and very weak, very… - Leo Tolstoy

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Feelings, the most diverse, very strong and very weak, very significant and very worthless, very bad and very good, if only they infect the reader, the spectator, the listener, constitute the subject of art.

Leo Tolstoy

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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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Pen Names: Л. Н. Т. • Л. Н.

Birth Name: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Native Name: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й

Alternative Names: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy • Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 • Tolstoĭ, Lev Nikolaevich, graf, 1828-1910 • Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoĭ • Leo Tolstoi • Tolstoĭ, Lev Nikolaevich, graf • Tolstoy, Leo, graf

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