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Tolstoy's God Sees the Truth, But Waits: A Reflection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
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It is well known that in the latter half of the 1870s Tolstoy suffered an arrest of life. He relates in A Confession that the attempt to find a meaning in life that would be immune to death had almost led to his own suicide. He asks: ‘Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destroy?’
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