If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
-- Leo Tolstoy
   
Leo Tolstoy   Name:
Leo Tolstoy
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
Russian
Birth:
September 9, 1828
Death:
November 20, 1910
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