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Youth

Leo Tolstoy

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1857
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 260

At university the narrator sorts humanity by French pronunciation and fingernails, makes rules for himself every spring and breaks them, and fails his examination. He ends without the theory he had been living inside.

Oh, but how good, how happy, I could be—nay, I will be—in the future!
Youth, Leo Tolstoy

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