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“They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is most important…

— Lev Shestov

“But it rained all the time, fog covered the fields, and by then he was reading Tolstoy. There were some books that reached through…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“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

“Epilogues are for Tolstoy”

— E.M. Forster

“...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

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

“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

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“quoting Tolstoy: “I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and…

— James Gleick

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

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

— Christina Stead

“Are we genuinely prepared to say that working in an office building or shopping in a mall is real, while reading Tolstoy is not?”

— Sarah Arthur