Leo N. Tolstoi Quotes

TOLSTOI, Count Leo N. Quotes

(1828-1910), Russian author

Life

The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.

Writing

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure in which he reveals to us the inner working of his soul.