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| Edited By: Leo Tolstoy |Source: DNA |Updated: Mar 05, 2015, 05:10 AM IST
During that time I began to write from vanity, covetousness, and pride. In my writings I did the same as in my life. To get fame and money, for the sake of which I wrote, it was necessary to hide the good and to display the evil. And I did so. How often in my writings I contrived to hide under the guise of indifference, or even of banter, those strivings of mine towards goodness which gave meaning to my life! And I succeeded in this and was praised.
The author (1828—1910) was a Russian writer and one of the great spiritual figures of the 19th century
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