Leo Tolstoy on Love and Its Paradoxical Demands – The Marginalian
Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828–November 10, 1910) began tussling with the grandest questions of existence from an early age. As a young man, he struggled through his search for himself , learned the hard way about the moral weight of immoral motives , and confronted the meaning of human existence . By late middle age, his work had gained him worldwide literary acclaim, but had also managed to antagonize both church and state at home — the Russian government found his social, political, and moral