“You worldly-minded people are most unfortunate! You are surrounded with sorrows and troubles overhead and underfoot and to the right and to the left, and you are enigmas even to yourselves.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 37

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Russian writer 1828–1910

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