"He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul." ― Leo Tolstoy Love Fear From Leo Tolstoy Novelist Added on 1/31/2026 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. Born: 1828-09-09 Died: 1910-11-20 View all quotes from Leo Tolstoy
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