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Leo Tolstoy — quotes
These are Tolstoy's words on faith and meaning as he actually wrote them in A Confession (1882) — verified against Leo Wiener's public-domain translation, not paraphrased. The short book they come from is one click away.
On the meaning of life
“Is there in my life a meaning which would not be destroyed by my inevitable, imminent death?”
On faith
“No matter what answers faith may give, its every answer gives to the finite existence of man the sense of the infinite, — a sense which is not destroyed by suffering, privation, and death. Consequently in faith alone could we find the meaning and possibility of life.”
On God
“Live searching after God, and then there will be no life without God.”
Every quote above is from A Confession — read it in context.
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