item: #1 of 12
          id: 36111
      author: Heller, Otto
       title: Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy
        date: None
       words: 43052
      flesch: 57
     summary: The main thesis of his mystical belief is that there are divine forces dormant in human nature; how to arouse and release them, constitutes the paramount problem of human life. _L'Oiseau Bleu_ (The Blue Bird), above all other works, illustrates the fact that human lives suffer not so much for the lack of happiness as for the want of being clearly conscious of the happiness they possess.
    keywords: age; art; author; book; case; character; day; death; existence; fact; fate; general; good; happiness; human; intellectual; life; living; love; maeterlinck; man; means; men; mind; moral; nature; new; nietzsche; order; people; philosophy; plays; power; purpose; question; reason; right; self; sense; society; soul; story; strindberg; theory; things; thought; time; tolstoy; view; war; way; woman; work; world; zarathustra
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        item: #2 of 12
          id: 3631
      author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf
       title: On the Significance of Science and Art
        date: None
       words: 23785
      flesch: 58
     summary: A man who acknowledges his appointment to labor will naturally strive towards that rotation of labor which is peculiar to him, for the satisfaction of his inward requirements; and he can alter this labor in no other way than when he feels within himself an irresistible summons to some exclusive form of labor, and when the demands of other men for that labor are expressed. Such men have existed of the first, second, third, and lowest ranks.
    keywords: activity; art; division; food; labor; life; man; mankind; men; order; organism; people; question; reason; science; theory; thing; time; work
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        item: #3 of 12
          id: 38027
      author: Tolstaia, S. A. (Sofia Andreevna)
       title: Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy
        date: None
       words: 27319
      flesch: 73
     summary: III Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy had known my mother from his childhood and was a friend of hers, though he was two and a half years younger. Nearly three years separate the going away and death of Leo N. Tolstoy from the writing of her autobiography by S. A. T. It might have been expected that that interval of time would have stilled the pain in her heart and that her soul would have found peace from her sufferings.
    keywords: a. t.; children; death; diary; family; house; husband; leo; leo nikolaevich; letter; life; moscow; n. tolstoy; new; nikolaevich; pages; polyana; s. a.; strakhov; time; tolstoy; work; yasnaya; years
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        item: #4 of 12
          id: 38616
      author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf
       title: Where Love is There God is Also
        date: None
       words: 5235
      flesch: 91
     summary: Avdyeitch had always been a good man; but as he grew old, he began to think more about his soul, and get nearer to God. But God gave Avdyeitch no luck with his children.
    keywords: avdyeitch; god; martuin; window; woman
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        item: #5 of 12
          id: 40260
      author: Chertkov, V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich)
       title: The Last Days of Tolstoy
        date: None
       words: 37766
      flesch: 68
     summary: When he left Yasnaya Polyana Leo Nikolaevitch firmly and unhesitatingly decided to cut himself off from his family, and therefore while he was still hoping to live independently, he naturally avoided interviews with Sofya Andreyevna, who would with all her energies, and without scruple as to the means employed, have hindered his realising his plan. I remember on both occasions when he came to us how extremely shattered, worn out and ill Leo Nikolaevitch looked, and how perceptibly before our eyes he improved physically and revived spiritually.
    keywords: andreyevna; day; death; family; god; help; leo nikolaevitch; letter; life; love; man; men; people; polyana; sofya; sofya andreyevna; soul; sufferings; time; tolstoy; way; wife; yasnaya; years
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        item: #6 of 12
          id: 41119
      author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf
       title: A Russian Proprietor, and Other Stories
        date: None
       words: 95273
      flesch: 86
     summary: As you read on, you say not, 'This is _like_ life' but 'This _is_ life. There stood some lofty platform, and around it in silence stood what seemed like little men.
    keywords: albert; anna; count; day; delesof; door; excellency; expression; eyes; face; father; fedorovna; feet; felt; footnote; god; good; hair; hand; head; home; horses; house; lady; left; life; liza; look; love; man; men; moment; money; nekhliudof; new; peasant; people; place; play; prince; right; room; rubles; smile; table; tatar; thing; thought; time; turbin; voice; want; way; white; window; woman; work; zhilin
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        item: #7 of 12
          id: 47353
      author: Winstanley, Lilian
       title: Tolstoy
        date: None
       words: 30158
      flesch: 62
     summary: The Tolstoy family had played a famous, though at times a questionable part in Russian history; its first Count--Peter Tolstoy--was an accomplice in the assassination of the Tsarevitch Alexis, son of Peter the Great; he was appointed Chief of the Secret Service, and, later on, enjoyed the confidence of the Empress Catherine I. This invaluable quality of sincerity is found in all the greatest Russians; Tolstoy and Dostoïevsky, in especial, hide nothing, but reproduce all they know with an absence of self-consciousness that amazes even while it fascinates.
    keywords: andrei; anna; art; book; death; family; good; heart; influence; life; love; man; men; moral; natasha; nature; peace; people; power; prince; russian; shows; soul; time; tolstoy; vronsky; war; way; wife; work; world
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        item: #8 of 12
          id: 49203
      author: Krauskopf, Joseph
       title: "My Visit to Tolstoy": Five Discourses
        date: None
       words: 17054
      flesch: 70
     summary: Like many other old men, I retire from the world to await my end in solitude. And the hundreds of young men who have received their agricultural training at the National Farm School, and the hundreds of others, young and old, who, directly and indirectly, have been encouraged by that school to forsake the congested cities and to take up the farmer's life, owe their escape from the miseries of the Ghetto, and their enjoyment of health and happiness, to the promise asked of me by that noblest of all farmers, count Tolstoy.
    keywords: church; count; day; family; god; government; having; jews; life; love; man; peasant; people; power; religion; right; russia; society; time; tolstoy; world; years
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        item: #9 of 12
          id: 49435
      author: Rolland, Romain
       title: Tolstoy
        date: None
       words: 52641
      flesch: 74
     summary: Power of Darkness, The_ _Prashhoukhin,_ death of REASON (letter upon) Reason, Tolstoy's distrust of Religion-- Tolstoy's vague agnosticism as a youth Revival of, in the Caucasus Rembrandt _ The personal influence of Countess Tolstoy was a godsend to his art.
    keywords: anna; art; artist; book; caucasus; day; death; end; evil; eyes; faith; family; god; good; happiness; heart; human; ideas; letter; life; light; little; love; man; men; mind; moral; music; nature; peace; people; period; power; reason; russian; science; sebastopol; soul; state; thought; time; tolstoy; truth; war; work; world; years; youth
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        item: #10 of 12
          id: 52242
      author: Maude, Aylmer
       title: The Life of Tolstoy: First Fifty Years Fifth Edition
        date: None
       words: 165433
      flesch: 72
     summary: Tolstoy_. Not a single word with which she could sympathise did she hear from Tolstoy throughout that one and only occasion on which she was privileged to listen to his conversation; and in this she was particularly unlucky, for Tolstoy saw Herzen very frequently during his stay in London, and the two discussed all sorts of important questions together.
    keywords: a. tolstoy; anna; art; aunt; behrs; book; boys; brother; chief; childhood; children; church; count; count tolstoy; countess; day; days; dear; death; education; end; english; estate; fact; faith; family; father; feeling; felt; fet; following; french; general; god; good; great; hand; history; home; house; influence; karénina; knowledge; leo tolstoy; les; letter; life; literature; little; long; love; man; matter; meaning; men; mind; moscow; nature; new; nicholas; nicholas tolstoy; novel; order; pas; peasants; people; period; petersburg; place; polyána; pour; prince; pupils; que; question; qui; read; reading; real; relations; reply; right; room; russian; samára; saw; says; school; second; service; sevastopol; society; son; soul; stories; story; study; tatiána; things; thought; time; tolstoy; tourgénef; truth; understand; university; visit; vous; war; way; wife; wish; women; words; work; world; writing; years; yásnaya
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        item: #11 of 12
          id: 55284
      author: Gorky, Maksim
       title: Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi
        date: None
       words: 17050
      flesch: 80
     summary: Yet men arose who realized that light must come to us not from the East but from the West; and now he, the crown of our ancient history, wishes, consciously or unconsciously, to stretch himself like a vast mountain across our nation's path to Europe, to the active life which sternly demands of man the supreme effort of his spiritual forces. And all the philosophy, all the preaching of such men, is alms bestowed by them with a veiled aversion, and there sounds behind their preaching words which are beggarly and melancholy: Get out!
    keywords: day; eyes; god; good; leo; life; love; man; nicolayevitch; peasant; people; read; russian; soul; suler; thought; time; tolstoi; woman; words
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        item: #12 of 12
          id: 813
      author: Tolstoi, Ilia Lvovich, graf
       title: Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son
        date: None
       words: 25335
      flesch: 78
     summary: IVAN SERGEYEVITCH three times visited Yasnaya Polyana within my memory, in: August and September, 1878, and the third and last time at the beginning of May, 1880. Almost to the last day he was on his legs, and would not let any one nurse him.
    keywords: children; day; days; death; father; footnote; good; house; letter; life; lyoff; man; mother; people; right; room; seryozha; time; tolstoy; turgenieff; uncle; work; yasnaya; years
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