"A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, flared up with greater brightness than she had ever known, revealing to her all that before was in darkness, then flickered, grew faint, and went out forever."

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About Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral thinker best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina. His fiction and essays addressed ethics, religion, and social reform. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists in world literature.

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