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Quotes from Confession — Leo Tolstoy

1828–1910 Russia

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I cannot recall those years without horror, loathing, and heart-rending pain.

Confession (1882)

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

Confession (1882)

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

Confession (1882)

One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud!

Confession (1882)

Quite often a man goes on for years imagining that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

Confession (1882)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Leo Tolstoy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.