Leo Tolstoy Quotes
I Cannot Think Of Those Years Without Horror, Loathing And Heartache. I Killed Men In War And Challenged Men To Duels In Order To Kill Them. I Lost At Cards, Consumed The Labour Of The Peasants, Sentenced Them To Punishments, Lived Loosely, And Deceived People. Lying, Robbery, Adultery Of All Kinds, Drunkenness, Violence, Murder
there Was No Crime I Did Not Commit, And In Spite Of That People Praised My Conduct And My Contemporaries Considered And Consider Me To Be A Comparatively Moral Man.
So I Lived For Ten Years.
During That Time I Began To Write From Vanity, Covetousness, And Pride. In My Writings I Did The Same As In My Life. To Get Fame And Money, For The Sake Of Which I Wrote, It Was Necessary To Hide The Good And To Display The Evil. And I Did So. How Often In My Writings I Contrived To Hide Under The Guise Of Indifference, Or Even Of Banter, Those Strivings Of Mine Towards Goodness Which Gave Meaning To My Life! And I Succeeded In This And Was Praised.
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