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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!
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I have discovered nothing new I have only perceived what I already knew.
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He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. Where is it? What death? There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.
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