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“Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.”

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more

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