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“Tolstoy’s interest in history began early in his life. It seems to have arisen not from interest in the past as such, but from…

— Isaiah Berlin

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed . . . Tolstoy,” he”

— Brandt Legg

“Tolstoy said that “each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own—”

— Christina Stead

“Tolstoy was perfectly right to protest that history is not made to happen by the combination of such obscure entities as the ‘power’ or…

— Isaiah Berlin

“...Tolstoy's characters seem to come forward to meet you, very conscious of the impression they are making on one another and on the reader.”

— Stephen Spender

“Epilogues are for Tolstoy”

— E.M. Forster

“If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy.”

— Isaac Babel

“Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times.”

— David Markson

“Tolstoy had 13 kids and still wrote War & Peace.”

— Steven Pressfield

“This, Tolstoy says, is our human predicament: we're the man clutching the branch. Death awaits us. There is no escape. And so we distract…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“The decrees of society are temporary ones; what Tolstoy is interested in are the eternal demands of morality.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly…

— Malcolm Muggeridge