“I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.”

— Leo Tolstoy

My Religion (1884), as translated in The Human Experience : Contemporary American and Soviet Fiction and Poetry (1989) by the Quaker US/USSR Committee

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Russian writer 1828–1910

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