I read these lines and immediately knew I was in the presence of genius.
This is Man at his creative best. This is Man doing what he was meant to do. This is the power of the written word.
The following lines are from A Confession by Leo Tolstoy.
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This is Man at his creative best. This is Man doing what he was meant to do. This is the power of the written word.
The following lines are from A Confession by Leo Tolstoy.
(1/n)
"My life came to a stop. I could breathe, eat, drink, and sleep; indeed, I could not help but breathe, eat, drink, and sleep.
But there was no life in me because I had no desires whose satisfaction I would have found reasonable."
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But there was no life in me because I had no desires whose satisfaction I would have found reasonable."
(2/n)
"If I wanted something, I knew beforehand that it did not matter whether or not I got it.
If a fairy had come and offered to fulfill my every wish, I would not have known what to wish for."
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If a fairy had come and offered to fulfill my every wish, I would not have known what to wish for."
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"If in moments of intoxication I should have not desires but the habits of old desires, in moments of sobriety I knew that it was all a delusion, that I really desired nothing."
(4/5)
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"I did not even want to discover truth anymore because I had guessed what it was.
The truth was that life is meaningless."
- Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
(5/5)
The truth was that life is meaningless."
- Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
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