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Leo Tolstoy

A Confession

Leo Tolstoy wrote this short meditation on sadness and the meaning of life when he was middle aged. He had already completed his masterworks, Anna Karenina and War and Peace, reared fourteen children and gained fame and acclaim in Russia as a man of letters. But despite having attained that success, he still found himself unhappy and always returning to the disturbing idea that all achievement is meaningless.
A Confession is his attempt to put these thoughts in words as he teetered on the brink of suicide. It forms the first in a four-volume series that included A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology, The Gospel in Brief, and What I Believe (also known as My Religion or My Faith).
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  • Anindya Kfez uma citaçãohá 7 anos
    : I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.
  • mendozajamilamedizinafez uma citaçãohá 17 dias
    the reply is merely in­def­in­ite, or an iden­tity: o equals o, life is noth­ing. So that philo­sophic know­ledge denies noth­ing, but only replies that the ques­tion can­not be solved by it—that for it the solu­tion re­mains in­def­in­ite.
  • mendozajamilamedizinafez uma citaçãohá 17 dias
    But on ex­amin­ing the mat­ter I un­der­stood that the reply is not pos­it­ive, it was only my feel­ing that so ex­pressed it.

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