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A Confession

Leo Tolstoy

Form
Form Memoir
Year
Year 1882
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 80

A famous novelist at fifty, with land, family and fame, stops being able to say why he should get up in the morning, and hides the rope in his room. He finds his answer among peasants, not philosophers.

Religious doctrine is professed far away from life and independently of it.
A Confession, Leo Tolstoy

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