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Leo Tolstoy@leo-tolstoy Β· c. 1880s
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience β not from a change in external conditions. I gave up my estate and my title because I could no longer justify them. Not because the world had changed but because I had.
β Tolstoy's diaries and letters, c. 1880s β on his spiritual and social transformation
19th Century