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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 3 dias
    When it does not know some­thing, it says that what it does not know is stu­pid.
  • mendozajamilamedizinafez uma citaçãohá 4 dias
    third way, hav­ing un­der­stood that life is evil and stu­pid, was to end it by killing one­self. I un­der­stood that, but some­how still did not kill my­self. The fourth way was to live like So­lomon and Schopen­hauer—know­ing that life is a stu­pid joke played upon us, and still to go on liv­ing, wash­ing one­self, dress­ing, din­ing, talk­ing, and even writ­ing books. This was to me re­puls­ive and tor­ment­ing, but I re­mained in that po­s­i­tion.

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