He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he… - Leo Tolstoy

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He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.

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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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A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there is nothing on earth more splendid and interesting than himself.

Life is fragile and absurd.

The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting from it, is a phenomenon that has always occupied me and has done so most particularly of late.

He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before. - Leo Tolstoy

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